CVE-2025-23028
Cilium DNS Response Denial of Service Vulnerability
Description
Cilium is a networking, observability, and security solution with an eBPF-based dataplane. A denial of service vulnerability affects versions 1.14.0 through 1.14.7, 1.15.0 through 1.15.11, and 1.16.0 through 1.16.4. In a Kubernetes cluster where Cilium is configured to proxy DNS traffic, an attacker can crash Cilium agents by sending a crafted DNS response to workloads from outside the cluster. For traffic that is allowed but without using DNS-based policy, the dataplane will continue to pass traffic as configured at the time of the DoS. For workloads that have DNS-based policy configured, existing connections may continue to operate, and new connections made without relying on DNS resolution may continue to be established, but new connections which rely on DNS resolution may be disrupted. Any configuration changes that affect the impacted agent may not be applied until the agent is able to restart. This issue is fixed in Cilium v1.14.18, v1.15.12, and v1.16.5. No known workarounds are available.
INFO
Published Date :
Jan. 22, 2025, 5:15 p.m.
Last Modified :
Feb. 18, 2025, 8:15 p.m.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
Yes !
Impact Score :
1.4
Exploitability Score :
3.9
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
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CVE-2025-23028.
| URL | Resource |
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| https://github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36252 | |
| https://github.com/cilium/cilium/security/advisories/GHSA-9m5p-c77c-f9j7 |
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CVE Modified by 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
Feb. 18, 2025
Action Type Old Value New Value Removed CVSS V3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L Removed CWE CWE-770 -
New CVE Received by [email protected]
Jan. 22, 2025
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Description Cilium is a networking, observability, and security solution with an eBPF-based dataplane. A denial of service vulnerability affects versions 1.14.0 through 1.14.7, 1.15.0 through 1.15.11, and 1.16.0 through 1.16.4. In a Kubernetes cluster where Cilium is configured to proxy DNS traffic, an attacker can crash Cilium agents by sending a crafted DNS response to workloads from outside the cluster. For traffic that is allowed but without using DNS-based policy, the dataplane will continue to pass traffic as configured at the time of the DoS. For workloads that have DNS-based policy configured, existing connections may continue to operate, and new connections made without relying on DNS resolution may continue to be established, but new connections which rely on DNS resolution may be disrupted. Any configuration changes that affect the impacted agent may not be applied until the agent is able to restart. This issue is fixed in Cilium v1.14.18, v1.15.12, and v1.16.5. No known workarounds are available. Added CVSS V3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L Added CWE CWE-770 Added Reference https://github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36252 Added Reference https://github.com/cilium/cilium/security/advisories/GHSA-9m5p-c77c-f9j7 -
CVE Modified by 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
Jan. 22, 2025
Action Type Old Value New Value Added CVSS V3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L Added CWE CWE-770
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