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CVE-2020-1762

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.6 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-04-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-384

Description

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.

Affected products

• kiali: from 0.4.0 before 1.15.1 — fixed in 1.15.1
• Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2: 1.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: kiali 1.15.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1762
• https://kiali.io/news/security-bulletins/kiali-security-001/
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1762
• https://kiali.io/news/security-bulletins/kiali-security-001/

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