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GHSA-5r23-prx4-mqg3
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Impact
Host Policies will incorrectly permit traffic from Pods on other nodes when all of the following configurations are enabled:
These options are disabled by default in Cilium.
Patches
This issue was fixed by #42892.
This issue affects:
- Cilium v1.18 between v1.18.0 and v1.18.5 inclusive
This issue is fixed in:
- Cilium v1.18.6
Workarounds
There is currently no officially verified or comprehensive workaround for this issue. The following procedure has been validated strictly within a local 'Kind' environment and has not undergone exhaustive testing across diverse production architectures. Proceed with caution.
To mitigate the identified traffic bypass, ensure all ingress traffic from the cilium_wg0 interface is explicitly routed to cilium_host for policy enforcement. This ensures that host-level security policies are applied to decrypted WireGuard traffic. Execute the following configuration on each CiliumNode:
# IPv4 Traffic
ip rule add iif cilium_wg0 table 300
ip route add default dev cilium_host table 300
# IPv6 Traffic
ip -6 rule add iif cilium_wg0 table 300
ip -6 route add default dev cilium_net table 300
Acknowledgements
Special thanks to @julianwiedmann for reporting the issue and helping with the resolution.
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. Please also address any comments or questions on this advisory to the same mailing list.
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 does not need any special privileges or access rights. No user interaction is needed for the attacker to exploit this vulnerability. The vulnerability can affect other systems as well, not just the initial system. There is a low impact on the confidentiality of the information. There is a low impact on the integrity of the data.
Exploitation attempts have been detected. Elevated vigilance and prompt remediation are advised.
The exploit probability is very low. The vulnerability is unlikely to be exploited in the next 30 days.
We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.
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