CVE-2023-34242 LOW

CVE-2023-34242: Cilium vulnerable to information leakage via incorrect ReferenceGrant handling

Vendor Cilium
Product cilium
Weakness CWE-200 · Info exposure
Published June 15, 2023
Last update December 11, 2024

CVSS base score

3.4/10
Attack vector Adjacent
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required High
User interaction None
Confidentiality Low
Integrity None

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Cilium is a networking, observability, and security solution with an eBPF-based dataplane. Prior to version 1.13.4, when Gateway API is enabled in Cilium, the absence of a check on the namespace in which a ReferenceGrant is created could result in Cilium unintentionally gaining visibility of secrets (including certificates) and services across namespaces. An attacker on an affected cluster can leverage this issue to use cluster secrets that should not be visible to them, or communicate with services that they should not have access to. Gateway API functionality is disabled by default. This vulnerability is fixed in Cilium release 1.13.4. As a workaround, restrict the creation of `ReferenceGrant` resources to admin users by using Kubernetes RBAC.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

June 15, 2023 CVE published
December 11, 2024 Record updated