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High · 8.0 CVE-2024-28860 BIT-cilium-2024-28860BIT-cilium-operator-2024-28860BIT-cilium-proxy-2024-28860BIT-hubble-2024-28860BIT-hubble-relay-2024-28860BIT-hubble-ui-2024-28860BIT-hubble-ui-backend-2024-28860EUVD-2024-0984GHSA-pwqm-x5x6-5586GO-2024-2666

Insecure IPsec transport encryption in Cilium

Published Mar 27, 2024 · Updated Apr 10, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Cilium is a networking, observability, and security solution with an eBPF-based dataplane. Users of IPsec transparent encryption in Cilium may be vulnerable to cryptographic attacks that render the transparent encryption ineffective. In particular, Cilium is vulnerable to chosen plaintext, key recovery, replay attacks by a man-in-the-middle attacker. These attacks are possible due to an ESP sequence number collision when multiple nodes are configured with the same key. Fixed versions of Cilium use unique keys for each IPsec tunnel established between nodes, resolving all of the above attacks. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.13.13, 1.14.9, and 1.15.3.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
cilium cilium >= 1.4.0, <= 1.13.14, >= 1.14.0, < 1.14.9, >= 1.15.0, < 1.15.3 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling hubble-ui 0.13.0-r6 —
Wolfi rolling hubble-ui-backend 0.13.3-r1 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/cilium/cilium >= 1.4.0, < 1.13.14 1.13.14 GHSA-pwqm-x5x6-5586
Go github.com/cilium/cilium >= 1.14.0, < 1.14.9 1.14.9 GHSA-pwqm-x5x6-5586
Go github.com/cilium/cilium >= 1.15.0, < 1.15.3 1.15.3 GHSA-pwqm-x5x6-5586
Go github.com/cilium/cilium < 1.13.14 · >= 1.14.0, < 1.14.9 · >= 1.15.0, < 1.15.3 1.13.14, 1.14.9, 1.15.3 GO-2024-2666

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