CVE-2021-3495
An incorrect access control flaw was found in the kiali-operator in versions before 1.33.0 and before 1.24.7. This flaw allows an attacker…
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Description
An incorrect access control flaw was found in the kiali-operator in versions before 1.33.0 and before 1.24.7. This flaw allows an attacker with a basic level of access to the cluster (to deploy a kiali operand) to use this vulnerability and deploy a given image to anywhere in the cluster, potentially gaining access to privileged service account tokens. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 50 days later
· 50 days later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.97% · top 38% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Weakness
Affected products
kiali/kiali-operator
- affected kiali/kiali-operator 1.33.0, kiali/kiali-operator 1.24.7
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogithub.com/kiali/kialiGHSA-mv55-23xp-3wp8 (opens in a new tab)
References (2)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1947361 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://kiali.io/news/security-bulletins/kiali-security-003/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-mv55-23xp-3wp8 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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