CVE-2020-8843

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.

• CVE ID
• CVE-2020-8843

• Assigner
• cve@mitre.org

• Vulnerability Status
• Analyzed

• Published Version
• 2020-02-14T19:15:10

• Last Modified Date
• 2020-02-19T16:16:00

• Version
• 2.0

• Vector String
• AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

• Access Vector
• NETWORK

• Access Compatibility
• MEDIUM

• Authentication
• NONE

• Confidentiality Impact
• PARTIAL

• Integrity Impact
• PARTIAL

• Availability Impact
• NONE

• Base Score
• 5.8

• Severity
• MEDIUM

• Exploitability Score
• 8.6

• Impact Score
• 4.9

• Version
• 3.1

• Vector String
• CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

• Attack Vector
• NETWORK

• Attack Compatibility
• HIGH

• Privileges Required
• NONE

• User Interaction
• NONE

• Scope
• UNCHANGED

• Confidentiality Impact
• HIGH

• Availability Impact
• NONE

• Base Score
• 7.4

• Base Severity
• HIGH

• Exploitability Score
• 2.2

• Impact Score
• 5.2