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.
Source: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-1764
Reference (s):
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1764
- https://kiali.io/news/security-bulletins/kiali-security-001/