cve-2025-23028
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-01-22 16:48
Modified
2025-02-18 19:38
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
EPSS score ?
0.07% (0.18738)
Summary
Cilium is a networking, observability, and security solution with an eBPF-based dataplane. A denial of service vulnerability affects versions 1.14.0 through 1.14.7, 1.15.0 through 1.15.11, and 1.16.0 through 1.16.4. In a Kubernetes cluster where Cilium is configured to proxy DNS traffic, an attacker can crash Cilium agents by sending a crafted DNS response to workloads from outside the cluster. For traffic that is allowed but without using DNS-based policy, the dataplane will continue to pass traffic as configured at the time of the DoS. For workloads that have DNS-based policy configured, existing connections may continue to operate, and new connections made without relying on DNS resolution may continue to be established, but new connections which rely on DNS resolution may be disrupted. Any configuration changes that affect the impacted agent may not be applied until the agent is able to restart. This issue is fixed in Cilium v1.14.18, v1.15.12, and v1.16.5. No known workarounds are available.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/36252
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/cilium/cilium/security/advisories/GHSA-9m5p-c77c-f9j7
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
cilium cilium Version: >= 1.14.0, < 1.14.18
Version: >= 1.15.0, < 1.15.12
Version: >= 1.16.0, < 1.16.5
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