(RHSA-2021:1540) Important: Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 1.1.14 security update

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.

Security Fix(es):

• envoyproxy/envoy: HTTP request with escaped slash characters can bypass Envoy’s authorization mechanisms (CVE-2021-29492)

• istio/istio: HTTP request with escaped slash characters can bypass authorization mechanisms (CVE-2021-31920)

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.