CVE-2022-29179

Improper Privilege Management in Cilium

State: Published
Severity: 7.5 High
Published: May 20, 2022
Updated: Apr 23, 2025
Reserved: Apr 13, 2022

Description

Cilium is open source software for providing and securing network connectivity and loadbalancing between application workloads. Prior to versions 1.9.16, 1.10.11, and 1.11.15, if an attacker is able to perform a container escape of a container running as root on a host where Cilium is installed, the attacker can escalate privileges to cluster admin by using Cilium's Kubernetes service account. The problem has been fixed and the patch is available in versions 1.9.16, 1.10.11, and 1.11.5. There are no known workarounds available.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.5 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

Affected Products

Product	Versions
ciliumcilium	< 1.9.16Affected >= 1.10.0, < 1.10.11Affected >= 1.11.0, < 1.11.5Affected

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