Description
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.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
istio istio
>= 1.29.0-alpha.0, < 1.29.1affected>= 1.28.0-alpha.0, < 1.28.5affected< 1.27.8affected
References
- https://github.com/istio/istio/security/advisories/GHSA-v75c-crr9-733c ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-31837 ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2446344 ↗
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-31837.json ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:10184 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:5948 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:5950 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:5952 ↗