CVE-2021-31920 (GCVE-0-2021-31920)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-05-27 04:03 – Updated: 2024-08-03 23:10
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Summary
Istio before 1.8.6 and 1.9.x before 1.9.5 has a remotely exploitable vulnerability where an HTTP request path with multiple slashes or escaped slash characters (%2F or %5C) could potentially bypass an Istio authorization policy when path based authorization rules are used.
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