CVE-2023-41332

Denial of service via Kubernetes annotations in specific Cilium configurations

LOW
3.5
CVSS Score
Published: September 26, 2023 at 08:27 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 06:21 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorCilium

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Severity
LOW3.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.5%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

Cilium is a networking, observability, and security solution with an eBPF-based dataplane. In Cilium clusters where Cilium's Layer 7 proxy has been disabled, creating workloads with `policy.cilium.io/proxy-visibility` annotations (in Cilium >= v1.13) or `io.cilium.proxy-visibility` annotations (in Cilium <= v1.12) causes the Cilium agent to segfault on the node to which the workload is assigned. Existing traffic on the affected node will continue to flow, but the Cilium agent on the node will not able to process changes to workloads running on the node. This will also prevent workloads from being able to start on the affected node. The denial of service will be limited to the node on which the workload is scheduled, however an attacker may be able to schedule workloads on the node of their choosing, which could lead to targeted attacks. This issue has been resolved in Cilium versions 1.14.2, 1.13.7, and 1.12.14. Users unable to upgrade can avoid this denial of service attack by enabling the Layer 7 proxy.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 1.12.14v < 1.13.7v < 1.14.21.13.0 ≤ v < 1.13.71.14.0 ≤ v < 1.14.2
Affected range stops below 1.12.14, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 1.13.7, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 1.14.2, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

References (2)

x_refsource_MISCExploitIssue TrackingPatch
https://github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/27597
x_refsource_CONFIRMExploitMitigationPatchThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/cilium/cilium/security/advisories/GHSA-24m5-r6hv-ccgp

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

3.5LOWGitHub_M
Attack Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
LOW
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-755

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