Impact
For Cilium users who are using CRDs to store Cilium state (the default configuration) and Wireguard transparent encryption, responses from pods to the Ingress and health endpoints are not encrypted. Traffic from the Ingress and health endpoints to pods is not affected by this issue. The health endpoint is only used for Cilium's internal health checks.
Patches
This issue affects Cilium v1.14 before v1.14.7.
This issue has been patched in Cilium v1.14.7.
Workarounds
There is no workaround to this issue - affected users are encouraged to upgrade.
Acknowledgements
The Cilium community has worked together with members of Isovalent to prepare these mitigations. Special thanks to @gandro for their work on triaging and remediating this issue.
For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, please reach out on Slack.
If you think you have found a vulnerability affecting Cilium, we strongly encourage you to report it to our security mailing list at security@cilium.io. This is a private mailing list where only members of the Cilium internal security team are subscribed to, and your report will be treated as top priority.
Impact
For Cilium users who have enabled an external kvstore and Wireguard transparent encryption, traffic between pods in the affected cluster is not encrypted.
Patches
This issue affects Cilium v1.14 before v1.14.7.
This issue has been patched in Cilium v1.14.7.
Workarounds
There is no workaround to this issue - affected users are encouraged to upgrade.
Acknowledgements
The Cilium community has worked together with members of Isovalent to prepare these mitigations. Special thanks to @giorio94 and @gandro for their work on triaging and remediating this issue.
For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, please reach out on Slack.
If you think you found a related vulnerability, we strongly encourage you to report security vulnerabilities to our private security mailing list at security@cilium.io. This is a private mailing list where only members of the Cilium internal security team are subscribed to, and your report will be treated as top priority.
Impact
Users of IPsec transparent encryption in Cilium may be vulnerable to cryptographic attacks that render the transparent encryption ineffective.
In particular, Cilium is vulnerable to the following attacks by a man-in-the-middle attacker:
- Chosen plaintext attacks - Key recovery attacks - Replay attacks
These attacks are possible due to an ESP sequence number collision when multiple nodes are configured with the same key. Fixed versions of Cilium use unique keys for each IPsec tunnel established between nodes, resolving all of the above attacks.
Important: After upgrading, users must perform a key rotation using the instructions here to ensure that they are no longer vulnerable to this issue. Please note that the key rotation instructions have recently been updated, and users must use the new instructions to properly establish secure IPsec tunnels. To validate that the new instructions have been followed properly, ensure that the IPsec Kubernetes secret contains a "+" sign.
Patches
All prior versions of Cilium that support IPsec transparent encryption (Cilium 1.4 onwards) are affected by this issue.
Patched versions:
- Cilium 1.15.3 - Cilium 1.14.9 - Cilium 1.13.14
Workarounds
There is no workaround to this issue. IPsec transparent encryption users are strongly encouraged to upgrade.
Acknowledgements
The Cilium community has worked together with members of Cure53 and Isovalent to prepare these mitigations. Special thanks to @NikAleksandrov and @pchaigno for their work on remediating the issue. Thanks to Marsh Ray, Senior Software Developer at Microsoft, for input and guidance on the fix.
For more information If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, please reach out on Slack.
As usual, if you think you found a related vulnerability, we strongly encourage you to report security vulnerabilities to our private security mailing list: security@cilium.io - first, before disclosing them in any public forums. This is a private mailing list where only members of the Cilium internal security team are subscribed to, and is treated as top priority.