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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2025-03-26 07:07

Modified

2026-09-08 08:34

Summary

Node based network policies may incorrectly allow workload traffic

Details

Cilium is a networking, observability, and security solution with an eBPF-based dataplane. Node based network policies (fromNodes and toNodes) will incorrectly permit traffic to/from non-node endpoints that share the labels specified in fromNodes and toNodes sections of network policies. Node based network policy is disabled by default in Cilium. This issue affects: Cilium v1.16 between v1.16.0 and v1.16.7 inclusive and v1.17 between v1.17.0 and v1.17.1 inclusive. This issue is fixed in Cilium v1.16.8 and v1.17.2. Users can work around this issue by ensuring that the labels used in fromNodes and toNodes fields are used exclusively by nodes and not by other endpoints.

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        "ecosystem": "Bitnami",
        "name": "cilium",
        "purl": "pkg:bitnami/cilium"
      },
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          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "1.16.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1.17.2"
            }
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          "type": "SEMVER"
        }
      ],
      "severity": [
        {
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N",
          "type": "CVSS_V3"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2025-30163"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:a:cilium:cilium:*:*:*:*:*:go:*:*"
    ],
    "severity": "Medium"
  },
  "details": "Cilium is a networking, observability, and security solution with an eBPF-based dataplane. Node based network policies (`fromNodes` and `toNodes`) will incorrectly permit traffic to/from non-node endpoints that share the labels specified in `fromNodes` and `toNodes` sections of network policies. Node based network policy is disabled by default in Cilium. This issue affects: Cilium v1.16 between v1.16.0 and v1.16.7 inclusive and v1.17 between v1.17.0 and v1.17.1 inclusive. This issue is fixed in Cilium v1.16.8 and v1.17.2. Users can work around this issue by ensuring that the labels used in `fromNodes` and `toNodes` fields are used exclusively by nodes and not by other endpoints.",
  "id": "BIT-cilium-2025-30163",
  "modified": "2026-09-08T08:34:36.952Z",
  "published": "2025-03-26T07:07:58.967Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/security/policy/language/#node-based"
    },
    {
      "type": "FIX",
      "url": "https://github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36657"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://github.com/cilium/cilium/security/advisories/GHSA-c6pf-2v8j-96mc"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-30163"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.5.0",
  "summary": "Node based network policies may incorrectly allow workload traffic"
}

CVE-2025-30163 (GCVE-0-2025-30163)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-24 18:46 – Updated: 2025-03-24 19:29

Title

Node based network policies may incorrectly allow workload traffic

Summary

Cilium is a networking, observability, and security solution with an eBPF-based dataplane. Node based network policies (`fromNodes` and `toNodes`) will incorrectly permit traffic to/from non-node endpoints that share the labels specified in `fromNodes` and `toNodes` sections of network policies. Node based network policy is disabled by default in Cilium. This issue affects: Cilium v1.16 between v1.16.0 and v1.16.7 inclusive and v1.17 between v1.17.0 and v1.17.1 inclusive. This issue is fixed in Cilium v1.16.8 and v1.17.2. Users can work around this issue by ensuring that the labels used in `fromNodes` and `toNodes` fields are used exclusively by nodes and not by other endpoints.

Severity

3.4 (Low)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-03-24 19:29 UTC

CWE

CWE-863 - Incorrect Authorization

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/cilium/cilium/security/advisor…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36657	x_refsource_MISC
https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/security/policy/…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
cilium	cilium	Affected: >= 1.16.0, < 1.16.8 Affected: >= 1.17.0, < 1.17.2

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