VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2023-27594

CVSS score4.2 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.55%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2023-03-17
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

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.

Weakness classification

  • security-advisories@github.com: CWE-285
  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-863

Primary references