CVE-2024-28860

Insecure IPsec transport encryption in Cilium

Published Mar 27, 2024 CVSS 3.1 · 8 High EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
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.

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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2024-0984 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-pwqm-x5x6-5586 Cilium has insecure IPsec transport encryption
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
Apr 10, 2025, 6:25 PM
Reserved
Mar 11, 2024, 10:45 PM
Status
Analyzed
Published
Mar 27, 2024, 7:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 7:21 AM