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GHSA-5vxx-c285-pcq4
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.
The vulnerability can be exploited over the network without needing physical access. It is difficult for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability and may require special conditions. 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.
Limited exploitation activity has been observed. Close monitoring and planned remediation are recommended.
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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