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CVE-2021-27098

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-27098 affects SPIRE versions 0.8.1 through 0.8.4 and allows an authenticated attacker to forge X.509 certificates for unauthorized SPIFFE IDs by crafting specific requests to the FetchX509SVID RPC. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 8.1, indicating a low attack complexity and the potential for high impact on confidentiality and integrity, as it could lead to unauthorized identity issuance within the same trust domain. While the vulnerability requires prior authentication with a valid agent certificate, there is currently no public exploit code, active exploitation, or significant community discussion reported.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 0.8.1, <= 0.8.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cncf:spire:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 0.9.0, < 0.9.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cncf:spire:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 0.10.0, < 0.10.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cncf:spire:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 0.11.0, < 0.11.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cncf:spire:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 0.12.0, < 0.12.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cncf:spire:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.1HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.2
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.56%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
43.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0056 is in the 33rd percentile among its peer group of 17,844 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (5)

gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/spiffe/spireFixed in: 0.8.5
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/spiffe/spireFixed in: 0.9.4
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/spiffe/spireFixed in: 0.10.2
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/spiffe/spireFixed in: 0.11.3
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/spiffe/spireFixed in: 0.12.1

Vendor Advisories (1)

goGHSA-h746-rm5q-8mgqhigh

Legacy Node API Allows Impersonation in github.com/spiffe/spire/pkg/server/endpoints/node

May 21, 2021

References

github.com / spiffe/spire/security/advisories/GHSA-h746-rm5q-8mgq
Third Party Advisory