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GHSA-24m5-r6hv-ccgp

LowCVSS 3.5 / 10
Published Sep 27, 2023·Last modified Feb 4, 2026
Affected Components(0)

No affected components available

Description

Impact

In Cilium clusters where Cilium's Layer 7 proxy has been disabled, creating workloads with

  • policy.cilium.io/proxy-visibility annotations (in Cilium >= v1.13)
  • io.cilium.proxy-visibility annotations (in Cilium <= v1.12)

causes the Cilium agent to segfault on the node to which the workload is assigned.

Existing traffic on the affected node will continue to flow, but the Cilium agent on the node will not able to process changes to workloads running on the node. This will also prevent workloads from being able to start on the affected node. The denial of service will be limited to the node on which the workload is scheduled, however an attacker may be able to schedule workloads on the node of their choosing, which could lead to targeted attacks.

Patches

Pull request with fix

This issue affects:

Cilium <= v1.14.1 Cilium <= v1.13.6 Cilium <= v1.12.13

This issue has been resolved in:

Cilium v1.14.2 Cilium v1.13.7 Cilium v1.12.14

Workarounds

Users can avoid this denial of service attack by enabling the Layer 7 proxy.

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, please reach out on Slack.

As usual, if you think you found a related vulnerability, we strongly encourage you to report security vulnerabilities to our private security mailing list: security@cilium.io - first, before disclosing them in any public forums. This is a private mailing list where only members of the Cilium internal security team are subscribed to, and is treated as top priority.

Risk Scores
Base Score
3.5

The vulnerability can be exploited over a local network, such as Wi-Fi. It is easy for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability. An attacker needs basic access or low-level privileges. No user interaction is needed for the attacker to exploit this vulnerability. The impact is confined to the system where the vulnerability exists. There is a low impact on the availability of the system.

Threat Intelligence
3.2

Limited exploitation activity has been observed. Close monitoring and planned remediation are recommended.

EPSS
0.45%

The exploit probability is very low. The vulnerability is unlikely to be exploited in the next 30 days.

Exploit
Not available

We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.

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