CVE-2020-1762: Session Fixation

May 18, 2021

An insufficient JWT validation vulnerability was found in Kiali versions 0.4.0 to 1.15.0 and was fixed in Kiali version 1.15.1, wherein a remote attacker could abuse this flaw by stealing a valid JWT cookie and using that to spoof a user session, possibly gaining privileges to view and alter the Istio configuration.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-465w-gg5p-85c9
github.com/kiali/kiali/commit/93f5cd0b6698e8fe8772afb8f35816f6c086aef1
github.com/kiali/kiali/commit/c91a0949683976f621cca213c1193831d63b381c
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-1762

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