CVE-2025-30162 | East-west traffic not subject to egress policy enforcement for requests via Gateway API load balancers

Cilium is a networking, observability, and security solution with an eBPF-based dataplane. For Cilium users who use Gateway API for Ingress for some services and use LB-IPAM or BGP for LB Service implementation and use network policies to block egress traffic from workloads in a namespace to workloads in other namespaces, egress traffic from workloads covered by such network policies to LoadBalancers configured by `Gateway` resources will incorrectly be allowed. LoadBalancer resources not deployed via a Gateway API configuration are not affected by this issue. This issue affects: Cilium v1.15 between v1.15.0 and v1.15.14 inclusive, 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 v1.15.15, v1.16.8, and v1.17.2. A Clusterwide Cilium Network Policy can be used to work around this issue for users who are unable to upgrade.

Published: 2025-03-24 Last update: 2026-06-17 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Analyzed，CVE State: published
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CVE-2025-30162 is rated Low Risk (16.3/100): CVSS Low severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.20%). Low composite risk—no urgent action required; patch on your normal maintenance cycle and revisit priority if CVSS or EPSS increases.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2025-30162

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 0.01% 0.20% +0.18%
2 2025-03-25 — 0.01% —

Full EPSS history (2 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2025-30162

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
3.2 3.1 LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:L)
They already need access on the box, or another person has to do something wrong; it’s not a remote drive-by.
Attack complexity (AC:H)
Even with access, the exploit needs extra luck, timing, or a fussy environment to actually work.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:C)
Breaking this can reach past the original component and bite other resources—bigger blast radius.
Confidentiality (C:L)
Some sensitive info could get out, but not a total data dump.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
 1.4 1.4 [email protected]
4.3 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:L)
They already need access on the box, or another person has to do something wrong; it’s not a remote drive-by.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:C)
Breaking this can reach past the original component and bite other resources—bigger blast radius.
Confidentiality (C:L)
Some sensitive info could get out, but not a total data dump.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
 2.5 1.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2025-30162

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2025-30162

GHSA-24qp-4xx8-3jvj · Severity: low · Ecosystem: go — Cilium East-west traffic not subject to egress policy enforcement for requests via Gateway API load balancers

OS Trackers for CVE-2025-30162

vendor priority summary link
redhat low — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-30162

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2025-30162

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
cilium cilium >= 1.15.0, < 1.15.15 cpe:2.3:a:cilium:cilium:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cilium cilium >= 1.16.0, < 1.16.8 cpe:2.3:a:cilium:cilium:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cilium cilium >= 1.17.0, < 1.17.2 cpe:2.3:a:cilium:cilium:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2025-30162

cvelogic Threat Intelligence