CVE-2023-29002 HIGH

CVE-2023-29002: Debug mode leaks confidential data in Cilium

Vendor Cilium
Product cilium
Weakness CWE-532 · Sensitive info in logs
Published April 18, 2023
Last update February 5, 2025

CVSS base score

7.2/10
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity High
Privileges required High
User interaction None
Confidentiality High
Integrity High

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Cilium is a networking, observability, and security solution with an eBPF-based dataplane. When run in debug mode, Cilium will log the contents of the `cilium-secrets` namespace. This could include data such as TLS private keys for Ingress and GatewayAPI resources. An attacker with access to debug output from the Cilium containers could use the resulting output to intercept and modify traffic to and from the affected cluster. Output of the sensitive information would occur at Cilium agent restart, when secrets in the namespace are modified, and on creation of Ingress or GatewayAPI resources. This vulnerability is fixed in Cilium releases 1.11.16, 1.12.9, and 1.13.2. Users unable to upgrade should disable debug mode.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

April 18, 2023 CVE published
February 5, 2025 Record updated