CVE-2026-31837 (GCVE-0-2026-31837)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-03-10 21:57
Modified
2026-03-11 15:58
CWE
  • CWE-200 - Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
Summary
Istio is an open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices. Prior to 1.29.1, 1.28.5, and 1.27.8, a user of Istio is impacted if the JWKS resolver becomes unavailable or the fetch fails, exposing hardcoded defaults regardless of use of the RequestAuthentication resource. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.29.1, 1.28.5, and 1.27.8.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
istio istio Version: >= 1.29.0-alpha.0, < 1.29.1
Version: >= 1.28.0-alpha.0, < 1.28.5
Version: < 1.27.8
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