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Medium · 5.4 CVE-2024-42486 BIT-cilium-2024-42486BIT-cilium-operator-2024-42486BIT-hubble-relay-2024-42486EUVD-2024-2669GHSA-vwf8-q6fw-4wcmGO-2024-3074

Cilium vulnerable to information leakage via incorrect ReferenceGrant update logic in Gateway API

Published Aug 16, 2024 · Updated Aug 16, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Cilium is a networking, observability, and security solution with an eBPF-based dataplane. In versions on the 1.15.x branch prior to 1.15.8 and the 1.16.x branch prior to 1.16.1, ReferenceGrant changes are not correctly propagated in Cilium's GatewayAPI controller, which could lead to Gateway resources being able to access secrets for longer than intended, or to Routes having the ability to forward traffic to backends in other namespaces for longer than intended. This issue has been patched in Cilium v1.15.8 and v1.16.1. As a workaround, any modification of a related Gateway/HTTPRoute/GRPCRoute/TCPRoute CRD (for example, adding any label to any of these resources) will trigger a reconciliation of ReferenceGrants on an affected cluster.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
cilium cilium = 1.16.0, >= 1.15.0, < 1.15.8 —

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 cilium-cli 0.16.15-r2 —
Wolfi rolling hubble 1.16.0-r1 —
Wolfi rolling hubble-ui 0.13.1-r5 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/cilium/cilium >= 1.16.0, < 1.16.1 1.16.1 GHSA-vwf8-q6fw-4wcm
Go github.com/cilium/cilium >= 1.15.0, < 1.15.8 1.15.8 GHSA-vwf8-q6fw-4wcm
Go github.com/cilium/cilium >= 1.15.0, < 1.15.8 · >= 1.16.0, < 1.16.1 1.15.8, 1.16.1 GO-2024-3074

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