CVE-2022-29179

HIGH

Cilium <1.9.16, <1.10.11, <1.11.15 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Cilium is open source software for providing and securing network connectivity and loadbalancing between application workloads. Prior to versions 1.9.16, 1.10.11, and 1.11.15, if an attacker is able to perform a container escape of a container running as root on a host where Cilium is installed, the attacker can escalate privileges to cluster admin by using Cilium's Kubernetes service account. The problem has been fixed and the patch is available in versions 1.9.16, 1.10.11, and 1.11.5. There are no known workarounds available.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Release Notes, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.10.11
Release Notes, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.11.5
Release Notes, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.9.16

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0036
EPSS Percentile 27.3%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-269
Status published
Products (2)
cilium/cilium < 1.9.16
cilium/cilium 1.11.0 - 1.11.5Go
Published May 20, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026