Cilium's HTTP policies are not consistently applied to all traffic in the scope of the policies, leading to HTTP traffic being incorrectly and intermittently forwarded when it should be dropped.
This issue affects:
This issue has been patched in:
There is no workaround for this issue – affected users are strongly encouraged to upgrade.
The Cilium community has worked together with members of Isovalent to prepare these mitigations. Special thanks to @romikps for discovering and reporting this issue, and @sayboras and @jrajahalme for preparing the fix.
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If you think you have found a vulnerability affecting Cilium, we strongly encourage you to report it to our security mailing list at [email protected]. This is a private mailing list for the Cilium internal security team, and your report will be treated as top priority.
| Score | Percentile |
|---|---|
| 1.02% | 77.19% |
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.2 | 3.1 | — |
|
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| GHSA | GHSA-68mj-9pjq-mc85 ↗ |
| CVE | CVE-2024-28248 ↗ |
| CWE id | Name |
|---|---|
| CWE-693 | Protection Mechanism Failure |
Vulnerable version ranges and first patched releases as published by GitHub.
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | First patched | Vulnerable functions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| go | github.com/cilium/cilium | >= 1.13.9, < 1.13.13 | 1.13.13 | — |
| go | github.com/cilium/cilium | >= 1.14.0, < 1.14.8 | 1.14.8 | — |
| go | github.com/cilium/cilium | >= 1.15.0, < 1.15.2 | 1.15.2 | — |