CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-20278

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2021-05-28 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-05-28
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-287, CWE-290

Description

An authentication bypass vulnerability was found in Kiali in versions before 1.31.0 when the authentication strategy `OpenID` is used. When RBAC is enabled, Kiali assumes that some of the token validation is handled by the underlying cluster. When OpenID `implicit flow` is used with RBAC turned off, this token validation doesn't occur, and this allows a malicious user to bypass the authentication.

Affected configurations

• kiali kiali (< 1.31.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-287 Improper Authentication weakness
  • CWE-290 Authentication Bypass by Spoofing weakness

References