Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-39156  

Istio before version 1.11.1 contains a remotely exploitable vulnerability where an HTTP request with #fragment in the path may bypass Istio's URI path based authorization policies. For instance, an Istio authorization policy denies requests sent to the URI path /user/profile. In the vulnerable versions, a request with URI path /user/profile#section1 bypasses the deny policy and routes to the backend (with the normalized URI path /user/profile%23section1), possibly leading to a security incident.

Severity High

Remote Yes

Type Access restriction bypass

Description

Istio before version 1.11.1 contains a remotely exploitable vulnerability where an HTTP request with #fragment in the path may bypass Istio's URI path based authorization policies.

For instance, an Istio authorization policy denies requests sent to the URI path /user/profile. In the vulnerable versions, a request with URI path /user/profile#section1 bypasses the deny policy and routes to the backend (with the normalized URI path /user/profile%23section1), possibly leading to a security incident.

AVG-2321 istio 1.11.0-1 High Vulnerable

https://github.com/istio/istio/security/advisories/GHSA-hqxw-mm44-gc4r
https://istio.io/latest/news/security/istio-security-2021-008/#cve-2021-39156-cve-2021-32779
https://github.com/istio/istio/commit/90b00bdf891e6c770cb3235c14a9b1fda96cc7c5