CVE-2023-30851
mediumpriority · track · 21EPSS 0.007 · 51 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
Cilium is a networking, observability, and security solution with an eBPF-based dataplane. This issue only impacts users who have a HTTP policy that applies to multiple `toEndpoints` AND have an allow-all rule in place that affects only one of those endpoints. In such cases, a wildcard rule will be appended to the set of HTTP rules, which could cause bypass of HTTP policies. This issue has been patched in Cilium 1.11.16, 1.12.9, and 1.13.2.
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–medium · 2.6–5.3
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affected products (30)
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advisories (9)
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- GHSA-2h44-x2wx-49f4Potential HTTP policy bypass when using header rules in Cilium2023-05-22ghsa · osvUS
### Impact This issue only impacts users who: - Have a HTTP policy that applies to multiple `toEndpoints` AND - Have an allow-all rule in place that affects only one of those endpoints In such cases, a wildcard rule will be appended to the set of HTTP rules, which could cause bypass of HTTP policies. ### Patches This issue has been patched in Cilium 1.11.16, 1.12.9, and 1.13.2. ### Workarounds Rewrite HTTP rules for each endpoint separately. For example, if the initial rule looks like: ``` egress: - toEndpoints: - matchLabels: k8s:kind: echo - matchLabels: k8s:kind: example toPorts: - ports: - port: "8080" protocol: TCP rules: http: - method: "GET" ``` It should be rewritten to: ``` egress: - toEndpoints: - matchLabels: k8s:kind: echo toPorts: - ports: - port: "8080" protocol: TCP rules: http: - method: "GET" - toEndpoints: - matchLabels: k8s:kind: example toPorts: - ports: - port: "8080" protocol: TCP rules: http: - method: "GET" ``` ### Acknowledgements The Cilium community has worked together with members of Isovalent to prepare these mitigations. Special thanks to @jrajahalme for investigating and fixing the 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). 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](mailto: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.
- BIT-cilium-2023-30851Potential HTTP policy bypass when using header rules in Cilium2024-05-15vendor · osvUS
Cilium is a networking, observability, and security solution with an eBPF-based dataplane. This issue only impacts users who have a HTTP policy that applies to multiple `toEndpoints` AND have an allow-all rule in place that affects only one of those endpoints. In such cases, a wildcard rule will be appended to the set of HTTP rules, which could cause bypass of HTTP policies. This issue has been patched in Cilium 1.11.16, 1.12.9, and 1.13.2.
- BIT-cilium-operator-2023-30851Potential HTTP policy bypass when using header rules in Cilium2024-05-15vendor · osvUS
Cilium is a networking, observability, and security solution with an eBPF-based dataplane. This issue only impacts users who have a HTTP policy that applies to multiple `toEndpoints` AND have an allow-all rule in place that affects only one of those endpoints. In such cases, a wildcard rule will be appended to the set of HTTP rules, which could cause bypass of HTTP policies. This issue has been patched in Cilium 1.11.16, 1.12.9, and 1.13.2.
- BIT-cilium-proxy-2023-308512024-07-01vendor · osvUS
Cilium is a networking, observability, and security solution with an eBPF-based dataplane. This issue only impacts users who have a HTTP policy that applies to multiple `toEndpoints` AND have an allow-all rule in place that affects only one of those endpoints. In such cases, a wildcard rule will be appended to the set of HTTP rules, which could cause bypass of HTTP policies. This issue has been patched in Cilium 1.11.16, 1.12.9, and 1.13.2.
- BIT-hubble-2023-308512024-06-04vendor · osvUS
Cilium is a networking, observability, and security solution with an eBPF-based dataplane. This issue only impacts users who have a HTTP policy that applies to multiple `toEndpoints` AND have an allow-all rule in place that affects only one of those endpoints. In such cases, a wildcard rule will be appended to the set of HTTP rules, which could cause bypass of HTTP policies. This issue has been patched in Cilium 1.11.16, 1.12.9, and 1.13.2.
- BIT-hubble-relay-2023-30851Potential HTTP policy bypass when using header rules in Cilium2024-05-24vendor · osvUS
Cilium is a networking, observability, and security solution with an eBPF-based dataplane. This issue only impacts users who have a HTTP policy that applies to multiple `toEndpoints` AND have an allow-all rule in place that affects only one of those endpoints. In such cases, a wildcard rule will be appended to the set of HTTP rules, which could cause bypass of HTTP policies. This issue has been patched in Cilium 1.11.16, 1.12.9, and 1.13.2.
- BIT-hubble-ui-2023-308512024-07-01vendor · osvUS
Cilium is a networking, observability, and security solution with an eBPF-based dataplane. This issue only impacts users who have a HTTP policy that applies to multiple `toEndpoints` AND have an allow-all rule in place that affects only one of those endpoints. In such cases, a wildcard rule will be appended to the set of HTTP rules, which could cause bypass of HTTP policies. This issue has been patched in Cilium 1.11.16, 1.12.9, and 1.13.2.
- BIT-hubble-ui-backend-2023-308512024-07-01vendor · osvUS
Cilium is a networking, observability, and security solution with an eBPF-based dataplane. This issue only impacts users who have a HTTP policy that applies to multiple `toEndpoints` AND have an allow-all rule in place that affects only one of those endpoints. In such cases, a wildcard rule will be appended to the set of HTTP rules, which could cause bypass of HTTP policies. This issue has been patched in Cilium 1.11.16, 1.12.9, and 1.13.2.
- GO-2023-1785Potential HTTP policy bypass when using header rules in Cilium in github.com/cilium/cilium2024-08-20vendor · osvUS
Potential HTTP policy bypass when using header rules in Cilium in github.com/cilium/cilium
also known as (12)
Other names and identifiers for this entity.
- CNNVD-202305-2227cnnvd
- EUVD-2023-1449enisa_euvd
- GHSA-2h44-x2wx-49f4enisa_euvd
- BIT-cilium-2023-30851osv
- BIT-cilium-operator-2023-30851osv
- BIT-cilium-proxy-2023-30851osv
- BIT-hubble-2023-30851osv
- BIT-hubble-relay-2023-30851osv
- BIT-hubble-ui-2023-30851osv
- BIT-hubble-ui-backend-2023-30851osv
- GHSA-2h44-x2wx-49f4osv
- GO-2023-1785osv
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references (13)
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- https://cxsecurity.com/cveshow/CVE-2023-30851/cnnvd
- https://github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.11.16cnnvd
- https://github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.12.9cnnvd
- https://github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.13.2cnnvd
- https://github.com/cilium/cilium/security/advisories/GHSA-2h44-x2wx-49f4cnnvd
- https://github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.11.16enisa_euvd
- https://github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.12.9enisa_euvd
- https://github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.13.2enisa_euvd
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