6.1
MEDIUM
CVE-2024-25631
Wireguard Transparent Encryption Bypass in Cilium Network Solution
Description

Cilium is a networking, observability, and security solution with an eBPF-based dataplane. For Cilium users who have enabled an external kvstore and Wireguard transparent encryption, traffic between pods in the affected cluster is not encrypted. This issue affects Cilium v1.14 before v1.14.7 and has been patched in Cilium v1.14.7. There is no workaround to this issue.

INFO

Published Date :

Feb. 20, 2024, 6:15 p.m.

Last Modified :

Feb. 20, 2024, 7:50 p.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

No

Impact Score :

4.0

Exploitability Score :

1.6
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2024-25631 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Cilium cilium

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The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2024-25631 vulnerability over time.

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  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Received by [email protected]

    Feb. 20, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description Cilium is a networking, observability, and security solution with an eBPF-based dataplane. For Cilium users who have enabled an external kvstore and Wireguard transparent encryption, traffic between pods in the affected cluster is not encrypted. This issue affects Cilium v1.14 before v1.14.7 and has been patched in Cilium v1.14.7. There is no workaround to this issue.
    Added Reference GitHub, Inc. https://github.com/cilium/cilium/security/advisories/GHSA-x989-52fc-4vr4 [No types assigned]
    Added Reference GitHub, Inc. https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/installation/k8s-install-external-etcd/#when-do-i-need-to-use-a-kvstore [No types assigned]
    Added Reference GitHub, Inc. https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/security/network/encryption-wireguard/#encryption-wg [No types assigned]
    Added Reference GitHub, Inc. https://github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.14.7 [No types assigned]
    Added CWE GitHub, Inc. CWE-311
    Added CVSS V3.1 GitHub, Inc. AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
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