CVE-2024-28860

Insecure IPsec transport encryption in Cilium

MEDIUM
6.8
CVSS Score
Published: March 27, 2024 at 06:34 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 07:21 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorCilium

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Severity
MEDIUM6.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

Cilium is a networking, observability, and security solution with an eBPF-based dataplane. Users of IPsec transparent encryption in Cilium may be vulnerable to cryptographic attacks that render the transparent encryption ineffective. In particular, Cilium is vulnerable to chosen plaintext, key recovery, replay attacks by a man-in-the-middle attacker. These attacks are possible due to an ESP sequence number collision when multiple nodes are configured with the same key. Fixed versions of Cilium use unique keys for each IPsec tunnel established between nodes, resolving all of the above attacks. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.13.13, 1.14.9, and 1.15.3.

Affected

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

v ≤ 1.13.14v ≤ 1.14.0v ≤ 1.14.9v ≤ 1.15.0v ≤ 1.15.3v ≤ 1.4.0v < 1.14.9v < 1.15.31.14.0 ≤ v < 1.14.91.15.0 ≤ v < 1.15.31.4.0 ≤ v < 1.13.14
Affected range stops below 1.13.14, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 1.14.9, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 1.15.3, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatableTotal impact

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

CVSS

Attack Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Complexity
HIGH
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusANALYZED
CWE
CWE-326

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