7.5
CVSSv3

CVE-2021-39156

Published: 24/08/2021 Updated: 07/11/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 445
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Summary

An authorization bypass vulnerability was found in istio/istio. An HTTP request is incorrectly evaluated when a URI #fragment is specified. This flaw allows an malicious user to bypass an Istio URI-based authorization rule. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability.

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An authorization bypass vulnerability was found in istio/istio An HTTP request is incorrectly evaluated when a URI #fragment is specified This flaw allows an attacker to bypass an Istio URI-based authorization rule The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability ...
Istio before version 1111 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#sectio ...