CVE-2022-29179 Information

Description

Cilium is open source software for providing and securing network connectivity and loadbalancing between application workloads. Prior to versions 1.9.16 1.10.11 and 1.11.15 if an attacker is able to perform a container escape of a container running as root on a host where Cilium is installed the attacker can escalate privileges to cluster admin by using Cilium’s Kubernetes service account. The problem has been fixed and the patch is available in versions 1.9.16 1.10.11 and 1.11.5. There are no known workarounds available.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

https://github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.9.16 https://github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.11.5 https://github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.10.11 https://github.com/cilium/cilium/security/advisories/GHSA-fmrf-gvjp-5j5g

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

HIGH

User Interaction Required

HIGH

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

CHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

8.2