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Status published
Medium
CVE-2024-25631
Unencrypted traffic between pods when using Wireguard and an external kvstore
Vulnerability 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.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- https://github.com/cilium/cilium/security/advisories/GHSA-x989-52fc-4vr4
- https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/installation/k8s-install-external-etcd/#when-do-i-need-to-use-a-kvstore
- https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/security/network/encryption-wireguard/#encryption-wg
- https://github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.14.7
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Vulnerable Versions:
< 1.14.7
Timeline
Official Publish:
February 20th, 2024
Last Modified:
August 26th, 2024
Added to House:
July 22nd, 2026
CVSS Vectors
V3:
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N