Istio Authorization Bypass Vulnerability
Moderate severity
GitHub Reviewed
Published
May 24, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
•
Updated Aug 7, 2023
Withdrawn
This advisory was withdrawn on Aug 7, 2023
Package
Affected versions
< 1.8.6
>= 1.9.0, <= 1.9.4
Patched versions
1.8.6
1.9.5
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
May 27, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 24, 2022
Reviewed
Jul 11, 2023
Last updated
Aug 7, 2023
Withdrawn
Aug 7, 2023
Istio before 1.8.6 and 1.9.x before 1.9.5 has a remotely exploitable vulnerability where an HTTP request path with multiple slashes or escaped slash characters (%2F or %5C) could potentially bypass an Istio authorization policy when path based authorization rules are used.
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