CVE-2026-26963

Cilium may not enforce host firewall policies when Native Routing, WireGuard and Node Encryption are enabled

Published Feb 19, 2026 CVSS 3.1 · 6.1 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
Cilium is a networking, observability, and security solution with an eBPF-based dataplane. Versions 1.18.0 through 1.18.5 will incorrectly permit traffic from Pods on other nodes when Native Routing, WireGuard and Node Encryption are enabled. This issue has been fixed in version 1.18.6.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-5r23-prx4-mqg3 Cilium may not enforce host firewall policies when Native Routing, WireGuard and Node Encryption are enabled
History
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CPEs cpe:2.3:a:cilium:cilium:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

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First Time appeared Cilium
Cilium cilium
Vendors & Products Cilium
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Description Cilium is a networking, observability, and security solution with an eBPF-based dataplane. Versions 1.18.0 through 1.18.5 will incorrectly permit traffic from Pods on other nodes when Native Routing, WireGuard and Node Encryption are enabled. This issue has been fixed in version 1.18.6.
Title Cilium may not enforce host firewall policies when Native Routing, WireGuard and Node Encryption are enabled
Weaknesses CWE-863
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
Feb 20, 2026, 3:36 PM
Reserved
Feb 16, 2026, 10:20 PM
Status
Analyzed
Published
Feb 20, 2026, 12:16 AM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 10:26 AM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Feb 19, 2026, 11:38 PM