CVE-2024-28250

Cilium has possible unencrypted traffic between nodes when using WireGuard and L7 policies

MEDIUM
6.1
CVSS Score
Published: March 18, 2024 at 09:42 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 07:21 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorCilium

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Severity
MEDIUM6.1
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

Cilium is a networking, observability, and security solution with an eBPF-based dataplane. Starting in version 1.14.0 and prior to versions 1.14.8 and 1.15.2, In Cilium clusters with WireGuard enabled and traffic matching Layer 7 policies Wireguard-eligible traffic that is sent between a node's Envoy proxy and pods on other nodes is sent unencrypted and Wireguard-eligible traffic that is sent between a node's DNS proxy and pods on other nodes is sent unencrypted. This issue has been resolved in Cilium 1.14.8 and 1.15.2 in in native routing mode (`routingMode=native`) and in Cilium 1.14.4 in tunneling mode (`routingMode=tunnel`). Not that in tunneling mode, `encryption.wireguard.encapsulate` must be set to `true`. There is no known workaround for this issue.

Affected

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

v < 1.14.8v < 1.15.21.14.0 ≤ v < 1.14.81.15.0 ≤ v < 1.15.2
Affected range stops below 1.14.8, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 1.15.2, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

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

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

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CVSS

6.1MEDIUMGitHub_M
Attack Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Complexity
HIGH
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
NONE
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusANALYZED
CWE
CWE-311CWE-319

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