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CVE-2021-27099

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-27099 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting SPIRE versions prior to 0.8.5, 0.9.4, 0.10.2, 0.11.3, and 0.12.1. It allows an authenticated, remote attacker to potentially issue arbitrary SPIFFE IDs within the same trust domain due to improper path normalization in the "aws_iid" Node Attestor, specifically when an attacker controls an EC2 tag value used in agent ID templating. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.8 (Medium), indicating high impact on confidentiality and integrity with high attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 0.8.5CPE 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

6.8MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.6
Impact Score
5.2
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.72%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
50.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0072 is in the 39th percentile among its peer group of 1,428 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 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 (1)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

github.com / spiffe/spire/security/advisories/GHSA-q7gm-mjrg-44h9
PatchThird Party Advisory