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GHSA-q7w8-72mr-vpgw

GitHub Security Advisory

Policy bypass for Host Firewall policy due to race condition in Cilium agent

✓ GitHub Reviewed MODERATE Has CVE

Advisory Details

### 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 [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]). This is a private mailing list for the Cilium security team, and your report will be treated as top priority.

Affected Packages

Go github.com/cilium/cilium
Affected versions: 0 (fixed in 1.14.14)
Go github.com/cilium/cilium
Affected versions: 1.15.0 (fixed in 1.15.8)

Related CVEs

Key Information

GHSA ID
GHSA-q7w8-72mr-vpgw
Published
August 15, 2024 9:43 PM
Last Modified
August 15, 2024 9:45 PM
CVSS Score
5.0 /10
Primary Ecosystem
Go
Primary Package
github.com/cilium/cilium
GitHub Reviewed
✓ Yes

Dataset

Last updated: July 12, 2025 6:29 AM

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