CVE-2021-20278 (GCVE-0-2021-20278)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-05-28 10:42
Modified
2024-08-03 17:37
Severity ?
CWE
Summary
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.
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Vendor Product Version
n/a kiali Version: kiali 1.31.0
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