CVE-2024-28250 MEDIUM

CVE-2024-28250: Cilium has possible unencrypted traffic between nodes when using WireGuard and L7 policies

Vendor Cilium
Product cilium
Weakness CWE-311 · Missing encryption
Published March 18, 2024
Last update August 2, 2024

CVSS base score

6.1/10
Attack vector Adjacent
Attack complexity High
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality High
Integrity None

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Cilium is a networking, observability, and security solution with an eBPF-based dataplane. Starting in version 1.14.0 and prior to versions 1.14.8 and 1.15.2, In Cilium clusters with WireGuard enabled and traffic matching Layer 7 policies Wireguard-eligible traffic that is sent between a node's Envoy proxy and pods on other nodes is sent unencrypted and Wireguard-eligible traffic that is sent between a node's DNS proxy and pods on other nodes is sent unencrypted. This issue has been resolved in Cilium 1.14.8 and 1.15.2 in in native routing mode (`routingMode=native`) and in Cilium 1.14.4 in tunneling mode (`routingMode=tunnel`). Not that in tunneling mode, `encryption.wireguard.encapsulate` must be set to `true`. There is no known workaround for this issue.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

March 18, 2024 CVE published
August 2, 2024 Record updated