ghsa-5vxx-c285-pcq4
Vulnerability from github
Published
2025-04-21 16:17
Modified
2025-04-23 14:41
Severity ?
4.0 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
Summary
In Cilium, packets from terminating endpoints may not be encrypted in Wireguard-enabled clusters
Details

Impact

When using Wireguard transparent encryption in a Cilium cluster, packets that originate from a terminating endpoint can leave the source node without encryption due to a race condition in how traffic is processed by Cilium.

Patches

This issue has been patched in https://github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/38592.

This issue affects:

  • Cilium v1.15 between v1.15.0 and v1.15.15 inclusive
  • Cilium v1.16 between v1.16.0 and v1.16.8 inclusive
  • Cilium v1.17 between v1.17.0 and v1.17.2 inclusive

This issue is fixed in:

  • Cilium v1.15.16
  • Cilium v1.16.9
  • Cilium v1.17.3

Workarounds

There is no workaround to this issue.

Acknowledgements

The Cilium community has worked together with members of Isovalent to prepare these mitigations. Special thanks to @gandro and @pippolo84 for reporting this issue and to @julianwiedmann for the patch.

For more information

If you think you have found a vulnerability affecting Cilium, we strongly encourage you to report it to our security mailing list at security@cilium.io. This is a private mailing list for the Cilium security team, and your report will be treated as top priority.

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