CVE-2021-39156 (GCVE-0-2021-39156)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-08-24 22:30 – Updated: 2024-08-04 01:58
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Fragments in Path May Lead to Authorization Policy Bypass
Summary
Istio is an open source platform for providing a uniform way to integrate microservices, manage traffic flow across microservices, enforce policies and aggregate telemetry data. Istio 1.11.0, 1.10.3 and below, and 1.9.7 and below contain a remotely exploitable vulnerability where an HTTP request with `#fragment` in the path may bypass Istio’s URI path based authorization policies. Patches are available in Istio 1.11.1, Istio 1.10.4 and Istio 1.9.8. As a work around a Lua filter may be written to normalize the path.
Severity
8.1 (High)
CWE
- CWE-863 - Incorrect Authorization
Assigner
References
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