An incorrect access control flaw was found in the operator, openshift-service-mesh/istio-rhel8-operator all versions through 1.1.3. This flaw allows an attacker with a basic level of access to the cluster to deploy a custom gateway/pod to any namespace, potentially gaining access to privileged service account tokens. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.
Source: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-14306
Reference (s):
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1850380
- URL: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1850380
- https://github.com/maistra/istio-operator/pull/462
- URL: https://github.com/maistra/istio-operator/pull/462