Cilium up to 1.14.6 External kvstore missing encryption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in Cilium up to 1.14.6. This affects an unknown function of the component External kvstore. This manipulation causes missing encryption. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-25631. The attack can only be done within the local network. There is not any exploit available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in Cilium up to 1.14.6. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code of the component External kvstore. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a missing encryption vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-311. The product does not encrypt sensitive or critical information before storage or transmission. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

Cilium is a networking, observability, and security solution with an eBPF-based dataplane. For Cilium users who have enabled an external kvstore and Wireguard transparent encryption, traffic between pods in the affected cluster is not encrypted. This issue affects Cilium v1.14 before v1.14.7 and has been patched in Cilium v1.14.7. There is no workaround to this issue.

The weakness was released 02/20/2024 as GHSA-x989-52fc-4vr4. It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-25631 since 02/08/2024. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1600 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 1.14.7 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at github.com.

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Missing encryption
CWE: CWE-311 / CWE-310
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Local: No
Remote: Partially

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Cilium 1.14.7

Timelineinfo

02/08/2024 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Product: github.com

Advisory: GHSA-x989-52fc-4vr4
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2024-25631 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2024-25631
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-254251

Entryinfo

Created: 02/20/2024 19:37
Updated: 12/18/2024 18:48
Changes: 02/20/2024 19:37 (51), 12/18/2024 18:48 (27)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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