CVE-2023-27595

MEDIUM

Cilium < 1.13.1 - Improper Exception Handling

Title source: rule

Description

Cilium is a networking, observability, and security solution with an eBPF-based dataplane. In version 1.13.0, when Cilium is started, there is a short period when Cilium eBPF programs are not attached to the host. During this period, the host does not implement any of Cilium's featureset. This can cause disruption to newly established connections during this period due to the lack of Load Balancing, or can cause Network Policy bypass due to the lack of Network Policy enforcement during the window. This vulnerability impacts any Cilium-managed endpoints on the node (such as Kubernetes Pods), as well as the host network namespace (including Host Firewall). This vulnerability is fixed in Cilium 1.13.1 or later. Cilium releases 1.12.x, 1.11.x, and earlier are not affected. There are no known workarounds.

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0005
EPSS Percentile 14.5%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

Classification

CWE
CWE-755
Status published

Affected Products (2)

cilium/cilium
cilium/cilium < 1.13.1Go

Timeline

Published Mar 17, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026