SCA: security update for github.com/kiali/kiali (GHSA-465w-gg5p-85c9)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 409985

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- An insufficient JWT validation vulnerability was found in Kiali versions 0.4.0 to 1.15.0 and was fixed in
Kiali version 1.15.1, wherein a remote attacker could abuse this flaw by stealing a valid JWT cookie and
using that to spoof a user session, possibly gaining privileges to view and alter the Istio configuration.
(CVE-2020-1762)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-465w-gg5p-85c9

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 409985

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.9

Percentile: 52.21

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-1762

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Temporal Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/18/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/25/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-1762