CVE-2023-27594

MEDIUM

Cilium < 1.11.15, 1.12.0-1.12.7, 1.13.0 - Network Policy Bypass via IPv6 NodePort Traffic Misattribution

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Cilium is a networking, observability, and security solution with an eBPF-based dataplane. Prior to versions 1.11.15, 1.12.8, and 1.13.1, under specific conditions, Cilium may misattribute the source IP address of traffic to a cluster, identifying external traffic as coming from the host on which Cilium is running. As a consequence, network policies for that cluster might be bypassed, depending on the specific network policies enabled. This issue only manifests when Cilium is routing IPv6 traffic and NodePorts are used to route traffic to pods. IPv6 and endpoint routes are both disabled by default. The problem has been fixed and is available on versions 1.11.15, 1.12.8, and 1.13.1. As a workaround, disable IPv6 routing.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.11.15
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.12.8
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.13.1

Scores

CVSS v3 4.2
EPSS 0.0055
EPSS Percentile 41.7%
Attack Vector ADJACENT_NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-285 CWE-863
Status published
Products (2)
cilium/cilium < 1.11.15
cilium/cilium 0 - 1.11.15Go
Published Mar 17, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026