CVE-2026-39350

Summary

Istio is an open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices. In versions 1.25.0 through 1.27.8, 1.28.0 through 1.28.5, 1.29.0, and 1.29.1, the serviceAccounts and notServiceAccounts fields in AuthorizationPolicy incorrectly interpret dots (.) as a regular expression matcher. Because . is a valid character in a service account name, an AuthorizationPolicy ALLOW rule targeting a service account such as cert-manager.io also matches cert-manager-io, cert-managerXio, etc. A DENY rule targeting the same name fails to block those variants. Fixes are available in versions 1.29.2, 1.28.6, and 1.27.9.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
istioistio>= 1.25.0, < < 1.27.9affected
istioistio>= 1.28.0, < 1.28.6affected
istioistio>= 1.29.0, < 1.29.2affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-185: CWE-185: Incorrect Regular Expression
  • CWE-863: CWE-863: Incorrect Authorization

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: partial

References