VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2020-8843

CVSS score7.4 HIGH
EPSS probability1.06%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2020-02-14
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Description

An issue was discovered in Istio 1.3 through 1.3.6. Under certain circumstances, it is possible to bypass a specifically configured Mixer policy. Istio-proxy accepts the x-istio-attributes header at ingress that can be used to affect policy decisions when Mixer policy selectively applies to a source equal to ingress. To exploit this vulnerability, someone has to encode a source.uid in this header. This feature is disabled by default in Istio 1.3 and 1.4.

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-20

Primary references