Istio JWKS resolver to prevent private key material from being exposed when JWKS fetch fails.
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 8.7epss 0.4%
exploitation probability
0.4%top 69% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
Istio is an open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices. Prior to 1.29.1, 1.28.5, and 1.27.8, a user of Istio is impacted if the JWKS resolver becomes unavailable or the fetch fails, exposing hardcoded defaults regardless of use of the RequestAuthentication resource. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.29.1, 1.28.5, and 1.27.8.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
istio · istioReferences
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:10184https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:5948https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:5950https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:5952https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-31837https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2446344https://github.com/istio/istio/security/advisories/GHSA-v75c-crr9-733chttps://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-31837.json