Database/Container, Kubernetes & orchestration
Istio: DENY AuthorizationPolicy with wildcard-suffix principals silently fails to deny
CVSS 6.8CVE-2020-16844Container, Kubernetes & orchestrationcurated
Impact
DENY AuthorizationPolicy with wildcard-suffix principals silently fails to deny
Who can reach it
Any pod on the mesh
What to do
Rolling istiod upgrade; re-verify deny policies
References
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