An authorization bypass flaw was found in Istio. This flaw allows an attacker to craft an HTTP request that defines a certain pattern of escaped characters in the URI path (such as %2F, %2f, %5C, or %5c), allowing them to bypass the authorization service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.
An authorization bypass flaw was found in Istio. This flaw allows an attacker to craft an HTTP request that defines a certain pattern of escaped characters in the URI path (such as %2F, %2f, %5C, or %5c), allowing them to bypass the authorization service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.
This CVE addresses the specific fixes required in istio to support the vulnerability found in envoyproxy/envoy, CVE-2021-29492.
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