Cilium up to 1.13.12/1.14.7/1.15.1 HTTP Traffic protection mechanism

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Cilium up to 1.13.12/1.14.7/1.15.1. This impacts an unknown function of the component HTTP Traffic Handler. Such manipulation leads to protection mechanism. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-28248. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Cilium up to 1.13.12/1.14.7/1.15.1. Affected by this issue is an unknown function of the component HTTP Traffic Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a protection mechanism vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-693. The product does not use or incorrectly uses a protection mechanism that provides sufficient defense against directed attacks against the product. Impacted is confidentiality, and integrity. CVE summarizes:

Cilium is a networking, observability, and security solution with an eBPF-based dataplane. Starting in version 1.13.9 and prior to versions 1.13.13, 1.14.8, and 1.15.2, Cilium's HTTP policies are not consistently applied to all traffic in the scope of the policies, leading to HTTP traffic being incorrectly and intermittently forwarded when it should be dropped. This issue has been patched in Cilium 1.15.2, 1.14.8, and 1.13.13. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-28248 since 03/07/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

Upgrading to version 1.13.13, 1.14.8 or 1.15.2 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at github.com.

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Name

• Cilium

Version

• 1.13.0
• 1.13.1
• 1.13.2
• 1.13.3
• 1.13.4
• 1.13.5
• 1.13.6
• 1.13.7
• 1.13.8
• 1.13.9
• 1.13.10
• 1.13.11
• 1.13.12
• 1.14.0
• 1.14.1
• 1.14.2
• 1.14.3
• 1.14.4
• 1.14.5
• 1.14.6
• 1.14.7
• 1.15.0
• 1.15.1

Website

• Product: https://github.com/cilium/cilium/

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