CVE-2022-21679 Authorization Policy bypass in Istio

2022-01-1921:35:10

CWE-670

GitHub_M

www.cve.org

cve-2022-21679

istio

authorization policy

CVSS3

6.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

NONE

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

AI Score

9.6

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.002

Percentile

60.5%

JSON

Istio is an open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices. In Istio 1.12.0 and 1.12.1 The authorization policy with hosts and notHosts might be accidentally bypassed for ALLOW action or rejected unexpectedly for DENY action during the upgrade from 1.11 to 1.12.0/1.12.1. Istio 1.12 supports the hosts and notHosts fields in authorization policy with a new Envoy API shipped with the 1.12 data plane. A bug in the 1.12.0 and 1.12.1 incorrectly uses the new Envoy API with the 1.11 data plane. This will cause the hosts and notHosts fields to be always matched regardless of the actual value of the host header when mixing 1.12.0/1.12.1 control plane and 1.11 data plane. Users are advised to upgrade or to not mix the 1.12.0/1.12.1 control plane with 1.11 data plane if using hosts or notHosts field in authorization policy.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "istio",
    "vendor": "istio",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": ">= 1.12.0, < 1.12.2"
      }
    ]
  }
]