Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-31920  

Istio before version 1.9.5 contains 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.

Severity High

Remote Yes

Type Authentication bypass

Description

Istio before version 1.9.5 contains 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.

AVG-1947 istio 1.9.1-2 Critical Vulnerable FS#70808

https://istio.io/latest/news/security/istio-security-2021-005/
https://github.com/istio/istio/commit/749b8f8e15ebd4ab890373bc976e68ae100345df