Vulnerability · Published Mar 26, 2020 · Assigned by redhat

CVE-2020-1764

High 8.6

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in kiali from Red Hat. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 3.5% (higher than 89% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code. Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)8.6High

Exploit odds (30 days)3.5%top 10.9% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack tooling1Public PoC

Official description

A hard-coded cryptographic key vulnerability in the default configuration file was found in Kiali, all versions prior to 1.15.1. A remote attacker could abuse this flaw by creating their own JWT signed tokens and bypass Kiali authentication mechanisms, possibly gaining privileges to view and alter the Istio configuration.

Affected packages & fixed versions

Ecosystem	Package	Fixed in	Advisory
Go	github.com/kiali/kiali	1.15.1	GHSA-64rh-r86q-75ff
Go	github.com/kiali/kiali	1.15.1	GO-2022-0631

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Red Hat	kiali	all Kiali versions prior to 1.15.1

Weakness: CWE-321 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H

References

https://kiali.io/news/security-bulletins/kiali-security-001/ x_refsource_MISC
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1764 x_refsource_CONFIRM