CVE-2023-27595
This can cause disruption to newly established connections during this period due to the lack of Load Balancing, or can cause Network Policy bypass due to the lack of Network Policy enforcement during the window.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.73%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
Cilium is a networking, observability, and security solution with an eBPF-based dataplane. In version 1.13.0, when Cilium is started, there is a short period when Cilium eBPF programs are not attached to the host. During this period, the host does not implement any of Cilium's featureset. This can cause disruption to newly established connections during this period due to the lack of Load Balancing, or can cause Network Policy bypass due to the lack of Network Policy enforcement during the window. This vulnerability impacts any Cilium-managed endpoints on the node (such as Kubernetes Pods), as well as the host network namespace (including Host Firewall). This vulnerability is fixed in Cilium 1.13.1 or later. Cilium releases 1.12.x, 1.11.x, and earlier are not affected. There are no known workarounds.
- CVSS 3.1
- 9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.73% probability · 52th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-755
- Affected
- cilium/cilium
- Source
- security-advisories@github.com
References
- https://github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/24336Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.13.1Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/cilium/cilium/security/advisories/GHSA-r5x6-w42p-jhppThird Party Advisory
- https://github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/24336Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.13.1Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/cilium/cilium/security/advisories/GHSA-r5x6-w42p-jhppThird Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.