CVE-2024-42488

Cilium agent's race condition may lead to policy bypass for Host Firewall policy

State
Published
Severity
6.8 Medium
Published
Aug 15, 2024
Updated
Aug 19, 2024
Reserved
Aug 2, 2024

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Description

Cilium is a networking, observability, and security solution with an eBPF-based dataplane. Prior to versions 1.14.14 and 1.15.8, a race condition in the Cilium agent can cause the agent to ignore labels that should be applied to a node. This could in turn cause CiliumClusterwideNetworkPolicies intended for nodes with the ignored label to not apply, leading to policy bypass. This issue has been patched in Cilium v1.14.14 and v1.15.8 As the underlying issue depends on a race condition, users unable to upgrade can restart the Cilium agent on affected nodes until the affected policies are confirmed to be working as expected.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.16.8 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
ciliumcilium
  • < 1.14.14Affected
  • >= 1.15.0, < 1.15.8Affected

References

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