CVE-2020-14306: Istio-Operator Project Istio-Operator

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An incorrect access control flaw was found in the operator, openshift-service-mesh/istio-rhel8-operator all versions through 1.1.3. This flaw allows an attacker with a basic level of access to the cluster to deploy a custom gateway/pod to any namespace, 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.

Affected products

• Istio-Operator Project Istio-Operator: up to and including 1.1.3

Published 2020-09-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.