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.
Source: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-1762
Reference (s):
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1762
- https://kiali.io/news/security-bulletins/kiali-security-001/