Insecure IPsec transport encryption in Cilium
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 8epss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 93% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
Cilium is a networking, observability, and security solution with an eBPF-based dataplane. Users of IPsec transparent encryption in Cilium may be vulnerable to cryptographic attacks that render the transparent encryption ineffective. In particular, Cilium is vulnerable to chosen plaintext, key recovery, replay attacks by a man-in-the-middle attacker. These attacks are possible due to an ESP sequence number collision when multiple nodes are configured with the same key. Fixed versions of Cilium use unique keys for each IPsec tunnel established between nodes, resolving all of the above attacks. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.13.13, 1.14.9, and 1.15.3.
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
Affected products
cilium · ciliumReferences
https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/security/network/encryption-ipsechttps://github.com/cilium/cilium/commit/311fbce5280491cddceab178d83b06fa23688c72https://github.com/cilium/cilium/commit/a1742b478306fa256cd27df1039dfae0537b4149https://github.com/cilium/cilium/commit/a652c123331852cca90c74202f993d4170fd37fahttps://github.com/cilium/cilium/security/advisories/GHSA-pwqm-x5x6-5586