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CVE-2024-42488: cilium Race Condition

CVSS: 6.8v3.1MediumAnalyzed
AliasesCGA-276f-v9m7-mj32CGA-58m4-p795-mx56CGA-hf68-6rgc-g742
Published 15-08-2024Last modified 19-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-42488 is a medium (CVSS 6.8) Race Condition vulnerability in cilium. EPSS estimates a 0.50% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 41.8% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
27/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
6.8/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.50%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 0 · Related 8
CGA-4XWP-HC6R-4RM2CGA-5XP9-C23F-5MCWCGA-92GP-X52C-M9MPCGA-CPW3-GWVV-9JM4CGA-M2RF-55H5-CCFCCGA-MPH9-H25H-8R88

Timeline

  1. 15-08-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 19-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Cilium is a networking, observability, and security solution with an eBPF-based dataplane. Prior to versions 1.14.14 and 1.15.8, 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. This issue has been patched in Cilium v1.14.14 and v1.15.8 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.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 5 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.50%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

42%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.50% on 22-09-2026

22-09-202622-10-2026
EPSS score
0.50%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Chainguard21 products
  • cilium-1.15< 1.15.19-r3 | < 1.15.8-r0
  • cilium-1.15-clustermesh-apiserver< 1.15.8-r0
  • cilium-1.15-container-init< 1.15.8-r0
  • cilium-1.15-container-init-compat< 1.15.8-r0
  • cilium-1.15-hubble-relay< 1.15.8-r0
Wolfi3 products
  • hubble< 1.16.0-r0
  • hubble-ui< 0.13.1-r5
  • hubble-ui-backend< 0.13.1-r5
Cilium1 product
  • cilium< 1.14.14 | ≥ 1.15.0, < 1.15.8
Github.com/cilium1 product
  • cilium< 1.14.14 | ≥ 1.15.0, < 1.15.8

4 vendors · 26 products

References

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