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Incorrect Authorization

CVE-2023-27594

High
7.3/10

Summary

Cilium is a networking, observability, and security solution with an eBPF-based dataplane. In versions prior to 1.11.15, 1.12.x prior to 1.12.8, and 1.13.x prior to 1.13.1, under specific conditions, Cilium may misattribute the source IP address of traffic to a cluster, identifying external traffic as coming from the host on which Cilium is running. As a consequence, network policies for that cluster might be bypassed, depending on the specific network policies enabled. This issue only manifests when Cilium is routing IPv6 traffic and NodePorts are used to route traffic to pods. IPv6 and endpoint routes are both disabled by default. As a workaround, disable IPv6 routing.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
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  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • LOW
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CWE-863 - Incorrect Authorization

Authorization is a security mechanism performed by an application to grant or deny access to the requested resources by verifying the privileges of the user. When an application lacks effective authorization mechanisms, it enables unauthorized users to gain unintended privileges and illegitimate access to resources. Such a vulnerability may result in exposure of sensitive information, denial of service, arbitrary code execution, and complete system takeover.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published