CVE-2023-41333CWE-306

Bypass of namespace restrictions in CiliumNetworkPolicy

Medium · published September 26, 2023

CVSS v3.1
6.9
EPSS
0%
Percentile
40.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Cilium is a networking, observability, and security solution with an eBPF-based dataplane. An attacker with the ability to create or modify CiliumNetworkPolicy objects in a particular namespace is able to affect traffic on an entire Cilium cluster, potentially bypassing policy enforcement in other namespaces. By using a crafted `endpointSelector` that uses the `DoesNotExist` operator on the `reserved:init` label, the attacker can create policies that bypass namespace restrictions and affect the entire Cilium cluster. This includes potentially allowing or denying all traffic. This attack requires API server access, as described in the Kubernetes API Server Attacker section of the Cilium Threat Model. This issue has been resolved in Cilium versions 1.14.2, 1.13.7, and 1.12.14. As a workaround an admission webhook can be used to prevent the use of `endpointSelectors` that use the `DoesNotExist` operator on the `reserved:init` label in CiliumNetworkPolicies.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.9 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00482 · 40.6th percentile
Weakness
CWE-306 · Missing Authentication for Critical Function
Published
2023-09-26T20:19Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 26 SEP 20:19Z
    Bypass of namespace restrictions in CiliumNetworkPolicy
    cvelistv5