Description
On a Kong Mesh global control plane, resources received over the zone-to-global KDS sync are attributed using the in-band, sender-controlled ControlPlane.Identifier rather than the authenticated zone identity derived from the connection. Authenticated zones can have the global control plane store and re-distribute those resources as belonging to another zone.
The result is a cross-zone isolation bypass: the holder of a single enrolled zone's credential can inject, attribute, and overwrite resources in another zone's namespace mesh-wide.
The root cause lives in Kuma's open-source KDS sync code, which Kong Mesh's control plane is built on.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kong | Kong Mesh | < 2.7.29, 2.8.0 – < 2.9.19, 2.10.0 – < 2.11.18, 2.12.0 – < 2.12.14, 2.13.0 – < 2.13.10, 2.14.0 – < 2.14.2 | 2.7.29 |
References
- Upstream advisory GHSA-m58j-fjmc-h3g4 vendor-advisory
- kumahq/kuma#17456 (master) patch
- kumahq/kuma#17458 (release-2.14 backport) patch
- kumahq/kuma#17461 (release-2.13 backport) patch
- kumahq/kuma#17463 (release-2.12 backport) patch
- kumahq/kuma#17462 (release-2.11 backport) patch
- kumahq/kuma#17460 (release-2.9 backport) patch
- kumahq/kuma#17459 (release-2.7 backport) patch
- Kong Mesh Changelog release-notes