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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-1764

A hard-coded cryptographic key vulnerability in the default configuration file was found in Kiali, all versions prior to 1.15.1. A remote attacker could abuse this flaw by creating their own JWT signed tokens and bypass Kiali authentication mechanisms, possibly gaining privileges to view and alter the Istio configuration.

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1 Nov 2026, 05:57 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2020-1764

core-osv · Original source

Published 26 Mar 2020, 13:15 UTC

A hard-coded cryptographic key vulnerability in the default configuration file was found in Kiali, all versions prior to 1.15.1. A remote attacker could abuse this flaw by creating their own JWT signed tokens and bypass Kiali authentication mechanisms, possibly gaining privileges to view and alter the Istio configuration.

osv:CVE-2020-1764
Complete source record
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