CVE-2024-42486

MEDIUM

Cilium <1.15.8-1.16.1 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Cilium is a networking, observability, and security solution with an eBPF-based dataplane. In versions on the 1.15.x branch prior to 1.15.8 and the 1.16.x branch prior to 1.16.1, ReferenceGrant changes are not correctly propagated in Cilium's GatewayAPI controller, which could lead to Gateway resources being able to access secrets for longer than intended, or to Routes having the ability to forward traffic to backends in other namespaces for longer than intended. This issue has been patched in Cilium v1.15.8 and v1.16.1. As a workaround, any modification of a related Gateway/HTTPRoute/GRPCRoute/TCPRoute CRD (for example, adding any label to any of these resources) will trigger a reconciliation of ReferenceGrants on an affected cluster.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.4
EPSS 0.0024
EPSS Percentile 47.5%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-200
Status published
Products (3)
cilium/cilium 1.16.0
cilium/cilium 1.15.0 - 1.15.8
cilium/cilium 1.16.0 - 1.16.1Go
Published Aug 16, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026