mediumCVSS 5Vulnerability

GHSA-fgw5-hp8f-xfhc

### Impact When a RequestAuthentication resource is created with a jwksUri pointing to an internal service, istiod makes an unauthenticated HTTP GET request to that URL without filtering out localhost or link local ips. This can result in sensitive data being distributed to Envoy proxies via xDS configuration. Note: a partial mitigation for this was released in 1.29.1, 128.5, and 1.27.8; however, it was incomplete and missed a few codepaths. 1.29.2 and 1.28.6 contain the more robust fix. ### Patches _Has the problem been patched? What versions should users upgrade to?_ ### Workarounds Users can deploy a `ValidatingAdmissionPolicy` to prevent the creation of `RequestAuthentication` resources with suspicious jwksUri field values (e.g. localhost, 127.0.0.0/8, 169.254.0.0/16, the ipv6 variants, etc.). ### References None

Properties

ghsa_id
GHSA-fgw5-hp8f-xfhc
severity
medium
summary
Istio: SSRF via RequestAuthentication jwksUri
cvss_score
5
cve_id
GHSA-fgw5-hp8f-xfhc
cvss_vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
is_ghsa_only
true
ghsa_published
2026-04-16T21:38:09Z
source_url
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fgw5-hp8f-xfhc
ghsa_updated
2026-04-16T21:38:11Z

Related Entities (4)

VULNERABLE_TO (1)

[Software]go/istio.io/istio

AFFECTS (1)

[Software]go/istio.io/istio

HAS_WEAKNESS (1)

[Weakness]Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

REPORTED_BY (1)

[Source]GitHub Advisory Database

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