CVE-2021-43979

MEDIUM

Styra Open Policy Agent (OPA) Gatekeeper <3.7.0 - Info Disclosure

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Styra Open Policy Agent (OPA) Gatekeeper through 3.7.0 mishandles concurrency, sometimes resulting in incorrect access control. The data replication mechanism allows policies to access the Kubernetes cluster state. During data replication, OPA/Gatekeeper does not wait for the replication to finish before processing a request, which might cause inconsistencies between the replicated resources in OPA/Gatekeeper and the resources actually present in the cluster. Inconsistency can later be reflected in a policy bypass. NOTE: the vendor disagrees that this is a vulnerability, because Kubernetes states are only eventually consistent

Scores

CVSS v3 5.3
EPSS 0.0023
EPSS Percentile 45.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-670
Status published
Products (1)
openpolicyagent/gatekeeper < 3.7.0
Published Nov 17, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026