CVE-2022-39388

Istio is an open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices. In versions on the 1.15.x branch prior to 1.15.3, a user can impersonate any workload identity within the service mesh if they have localhost access to the Istiod control plane. Version 1.15.3 contains a patch for this issue. There are no known workarounds.

Published: Nov 10, 2022
Updated: May 9, 2024
CVE: CVE-2022-39388
GHSA: GHSA-6c6p-h79f-g6p4
Severity: Low
Exploit:

CVSS v3:

Severity: Low
Score: 3.5
AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

CWEs:

CWE-863

Affected Software
References

Software	From	Fixed in
istio / istio	1.15.0	1.15.2.x
github.com/istio/istio	1.15.0-beta.0	1.15.3

https://github.com/istio/istio/commit/346260e5115e9fbc65ba8a559bc686e6ca046a32
https://github.com/istio/istio/commit/9a643e270421560afb2630e00f76d46a55499df9
https://github.com/istio/istio/security/advisories/GHSA-6c6p-h79f-g6p4
https://istio.io/latest/news/releases/1.15.x/announcing-1.15.3/

Vulnerability Database

CVE-2022-39388

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