CVE-2021-36371

LOW

Emissary-Ingress <1.13.9 - Auth Bypass

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Emissary-Ingress (formerly Ambassador API Gateway) through 1.13.9 allows attackers to bypass client certificate requirements (i.e., mTLS cert_required) on backend upstreams when more than one TLSContext is defined and at least one configuration exists that does not require client certificate authentication. The attacker must send an SNI specifying an unprotected backend and an HTTP Host header specifying a protected backend. (2.x versions are unaffected. 1.x versions are unaffected with certain configuration settings involving prune_unreachable_routes and a wildcard Host resource.)

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/emissary-ingress/emissary/issues/3340
Release Notes, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/emissary-ingress/emissary/releases/tag/v2.0.0-ea

Scores

CVSS v3 3.7
EPSS 0.0074
EPSS Percentile 49.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-295
Status published
Products (1)
getambassador/emissary-ingress < 1.13.9
Published Jul 09, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026