Insufficiently Protected Credentials Affecting github.com/kiali/kiali/handlers package, versions <1.16.0-snapshot.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Proof of concept
    EPSS
    0.21% (59th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-GOLANG-GITHUBCOMKIALIKIALIHANDLERS-561358
  • published 26 Mar 2020
  • disclosed 26 Mar 2020
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade github.com/kiali/kiali/handlers to version 1.16.0-snapshot.1 or higher.

Overview

github.com/kiali/kiali/handlers is a handler package part of kiali.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insufficiently Protected Credentials. A hard-coded cryptographic key vulnerability in the default configuration file was found in Kiali. 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

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
8.6 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    Low
  • Availability (A)
    High
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NVD

8.6 high