Intermittent HTTP policy bypass
### Impact Cilium's [HTTP policies](https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/security/policy/language/#http) 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. ### Patches This issue affects: * Cilium v1.13 between v1.13.9 and v1.13.12 inclusive * Cilium v1.14 between v1.14.0 and v1.14.7 inclusive * Cilium v1.15.0 and v1.15.1 This issue has been patched in: * Cilium v1.15.2 * Cilium v1.14.8 * Cilium v1.13.13 ### Workarounds There is no workaround for this issue – affected users are strongly encouraged to upgrade. ### Acknowledgements The Cilium community has worked together with members of Isovalent to prepare these mitigations. Special thanks to @romikps for discovering and reporting this issue, and @sayboras and @jrajahalme for preparing the fix. ### For more information If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, please reach out on [Slack](https://docs.cilium.io/en/latest/community/community/#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](mailto:security@cilium.io). This is a private mailing list for the Cilium internal security team, and your report will be treated as top priority.
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Related CVEs.
| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2024-28248US | high7.2 | — | ||
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 HT… | ||||
references
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/security/policy/language/#httpWEB
- https://github.com/cilium/ciliumPACKAGE
- https://github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.13.13WEB
- https://github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.14.8WEB
- https://github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.15.2WEB
- https://github.com/cilium/cilium/security/advisories/GHSA-68mj-9pjq-mc85WEB
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-28248ADVISORY
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