Vulnerability Database

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Total vulnerabilities in the database

CVE-2022-29179

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 v3:

  • Severity: High
  • Score: 7.5
  • AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: High
  • Score: 7.2
  • AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
cilium / cilium 1.11.0 1.11.5
cilium / cilium 1.10.0 1.10.11
cilium / cilium - 1.9.16
Go icon github.com/cilium/cilium 1.11.0 1.11.5
Go icon github.com/cilium/cilium 1.10.0 1.10.11
Go icon github.com/cilium/cilium - 1.9.16