CVE-2020-1764: Kiali

High severity, CVSS 8.6. EPSS: 3.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Kiali Kiali: before 1.15.1 (fixed in 1.15.1)
• Red Hat Openshift Service Mesh: version 1.0 only

Published 2020-03-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.