Important: Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 1.0.7 servicemesh-proxy security update

Synopsis

Important: Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 1.0.7 servicemesh-proxy security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 1.0.7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh is Red Hat's distribution of the Istio service mesh project, tailored for installation into an on-premise OpenShift Container Platform installation.

This advisory covers the RPM packages for the OpenShift Service Mesh 1.0.7 release.

Security Fix(es):

• istio: unauthorised access to JWT protected HTTP path (CVE-2020-8595)
  

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

The OpenShift Service Mesh release notes provide information on the features and known issues:

https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.3/service_mesh/servicemesh-release-notes.html

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 1.0 for RHEL 8 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1798247 - CVE-2020-8595 istio: unauthorised access to JWT protected HTTP path

CVEs

• CVE-2020-8595

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important