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Important: Authorization Bypass in Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 1.1.14

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Calendar Grey May 11, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
The recent release of Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 1.1.14 incorporates significant security upgrades and addresses essential vulnerabilities.
An update for servicemesh and servicemesh-proxy is now available for OpenShift Service Mesh 1.1

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh is Red Hat's distribution of the Istio service mesh project, tailored for installation into an on-premise OpenShift Container Platform installation.
Security Fix(es):
* envoyproxy/envoy: HTTP request with escaped slash characters can bypass Envoy's authorization mechanisms (CVE-2021-29492)
* istio/istio: HTTP request with escaped slash characters can bypass authorization mechanisms (CVE-2021-31920)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory update important authorization bypass Red Hat OpenShift service mesh escaped slash

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-29492 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-31920 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

OpenShift Service Mesh 1.1:
Source: servicemesh-1.1.14-1.el8.src.rpm servicemesh-proxy-1.1.14-1.el8.src.rpm
ppc64le: servicemesh-1.1.14-1.el8.ppc64le.rpm servicemesh-citadel-1.1.14-1.el8.ppc64le.rpm servicemesh-galley-1.1.14-1.el8.ppc64le.rpm servicemesh-istioctl-1.1.14-1.el8.ppc64le.rpm servicemesh-mixc-1.1.14-1.el8.ppc64le.rpm servicemesh-mixs-1.1.14-1.el8.ppc64le.rpm servicemesh-pilot-agent-1.1.14-1.el8.ppc64le.rpm servicemesh-pilot-discovery-1.1.14-1.el8.ppc64le.rpm servicemesh-proxy-1.1.14-1.el8.ppc64le.rpm servicemesh-sidecar-injector-1.1.14-1.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: servicemesh-1.1.14-1.el8.s390x.rpm servicemesh-citadel-1.1.14-1.el8.s390x.rpm servicemesh-galley-1.1.14-1.el8.s390x.rpm servicemesh-istioctl-1.1.14-1.el8.s390x.rpm servicemesh-mixc-1.1.14-1.el8.s390x.rpm servicemesh-mixs-1.1.14-1.el8.s390x.rpm servicemesh-pilot-agent-1.1.14-1.el8.s390x.rpm servicemesh-pilot-discovery-1.1.14-1.el8.s390x.rpm servicemesh-proxy-1.1.14-1.el8.s390x.rpm servicemesh-sidecar-injector-1.1.14-1.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64: servicemesh-1.1.14-1.el8.x86_64.rpm servicemesh-citadel-1.1.14-1.el8.x86_64.rpm servicemesh-galley-1.1.14-1.el8.x86_64.rpm servicemesh-istioctl-1.1.14-1.el8.x86_64.rpm servicemesh-mixc-1.1.14-1.el8.x86_64.rpm servicemesh-mixs-1.1.14-1.el8.x86_64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:1540-01
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1540
Issue date: 2021-05-11

Topic

An update for servicemesh and servicemesh-proxy is now available forOpenShift Service Mesh 1.1.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory update important authorization bypass Red Hat OpenShift service mesh escaped slash

Relevant Releases Architectures

OpenShift Service Mesh 1.1 - ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1951188 - CVE-2021-29492 envoyproxy/envoy: HTTP request with escaped slash characters can bypass Envoy's authorization mechanisms

1959481 - CVE-2021-31920 istio/istio: HTTP request with escaped slash characters can bypass authorization mechanisms

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