CVE-2021-39156

Summary

CVECVE-2021-39156
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-08-24 23:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:37:00 UTC
DescriptionIstio 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-706

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Istio Istio All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Fragments in Path May Lead to Authorization Policy Bypass · Advisory · istio/istio · GitHub CONFIRM github.com
Istio / ISTIO-SECURITY-2021-008 MISC istio.io
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 980379 Go (go) Security Update for istio.io/istio (GHSA-hqxw-mm44-gc4r)
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