CVE-2021-20278

Summary

CVECVE-2021-20278
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-05-28 11:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-08-05 15:20:00 UTC
DescriptionAn authentication bypass vulnerability was found in Kiali in versions before 1.31.0 when the authentication strategy `OpenID` is used. When RBAC is enabled, Kiali assumes that some of the token validation is handled by the underlying cluster. When OpenID `implicit flow` is used with RBAC turned off, this token validation doesn't occur, and this allows a malicious user to bypass the authentication.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-287

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Kiali Kiali All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
1937171 – (CVE-2021-20278) CVE-2021-20278 kiali: authentication bypass when using the OpenID login strategy MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
Kiali: Service mesh observability and configuration MISC kiali.io
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 982364 Go (go) Security Update for github.com/kiali/kiali (GHSA-ggjr-2f7v-vhq4)
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