CVE-2023-41332CWE-755

Denial of service via Kubernetes annotations in specific Cilium configurations

Low · published September 26, 2023

CVSS v3.1
3.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
42.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Cilium is a networking, observability, and security solution with an eBPF-based dataplane. In Cilium clusters where Cilium's Layer 7 proxy has been disabled, creating workloads with `policy.cilium.io/proxy-visibility` annotations (in Cilium >= v1.13) or `io.cilium.proxy-visibility` annotations (in Cilium <= v1.12) causes the Cilium agent to segfault on the node to which the workload is assigned. Existing traffic on the affected node will continue to flow, but the Cilium agent on the node will not able to process changes to workloads running on the node. This will also prevent workloads from being able to start on the affected node. The denial of service will be limited to the node on which the workload is scheduled, however an attacker may be able to schedule workloads on the node of their choosing, which could lead to targeted attacks. This issue has been resolved in Cilium versions 1.14.2, 1.13.7, and 1.12.14. Users unable to upgrade can avoid this denial of service attack by enabling the Layer 7 proxy.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
3.5 · LOW
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00513 · 42.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-755 · Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions
Published
2023-09-26T20:27Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 26 SEP 20:27Z
    Denial of service via Kubernetes annotations in specific Cilium configurations
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