Description
Istio is an open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices. In versions 1.25.0 through 1.27.8, 1.28.0 through 1.28.5, 1.29.0, and 1.29.1, the serviceAccounts and notServiceAccounts fields in AuthorizationPolicy incorrectly interpret dots (.) as a regular expression matcher. Because . is a valid character in a service account name, an AuthorizationPolicy ALLOW rule targeting a service account such as cert-manager.io also matches cert-manager-io, cert-managerXio, etc. A DENY rule targeting the same name fails to block those variants. Fixes are available in versions 1.29.2, 1.28.6, and 1.27.9.
Problem types
CWE-185: Incorrect Regular Expression
CWE-863: Incorrect Authorization
Product status
>= 1.28.0, < 1.28.6
>= 1.29.0, < 1.29.2
References
github.com/.../istio/security/advisories/GHSA-9gcg-w975-3rjh