Policy bypass for Host Firewall policy due to race condition in Cilium agent
### Impact A race condition in the Cilium agent can cause the agent to ignore labels that should be applied to a node. This could in turn cause CiliumClusterwideNetworkPolicies intended for nodes with the ignored label to not apply, leading to policy bypass. ### Patches This issue was fixed in https://github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/33511. This issue affects: - All versions of Cilium before v1.14.14 - Cilium v1.15 between v1.15.0 and v1.15.7 inclusive This issue has been patched in: - Cilium v1.14.14 - Cilium v1.15.8 ### Workarounds As the underlying issue depends on a race condition, users unable to upgrade can restart the Cilium agent on affected nodes until the affected policies are confirmed to be working as expected. ### Acknowledgements The Cilium community has worked together with members of Google and Isovalent to prepare these mitigations. Special thanks to @skmatti for raising and resolving this issue. ### 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 security team, and your report will be treated as top priority.
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Related CVEs.
| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2024-42488US | medium6.8 | — | ||
Cilium is a networking, observability, and security solution with an eBPF-based dataplane. Prior to versions 1.14.14 and 1.15.8, a race condition in the Cilium agent can cause the… | ||||
references
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- https://github.com/cilium/ciliumPACKAGE
- https://github.com/cilium/cilium/commit/7877db09b3f34d3081a1d66459b8fa6603dc3d30WEB
- https://github.com/cilium/cilium/commit/aa44dd148a9be95e07782e4f990e61678ef0abf8WEB
- https://github.com/cilium/cilium/commit/f81a1ee0cfdec928980db8640def984b2eeaa134WEB
- https://github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/33511WEB
- https://github.com/cilium/cilium/security/advisories/GHSA-q7w8-72mr-vpgwWEB
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-42488ADVISORY
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