CVE-2024-28248

HIGH7.2EPSS 1.0%

Intermittent HTTP policy bypass

Published: 3/18/2024Modified: 2/4/2026

Description

### Impact Cilium's [HTTP policies](https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/security/policy/language/#http) are not consistently applied to all traffic in the scope of the policies, leading to HTTP traffic being incorrectly and intermittently forwarded when it should be dropped. ### Patches This issue affects: * Cilium v1.13 between v1.13.9 and v1.13.12 inclusive * Cilium v1.14 between v1.14.0 and v1.14.7 inclusive * Cilium v1.15.0 and v1.15.1 This issue has been patched in: * Cilium v1.15.2 * Cilium v1.14.8 * Cilium v1.13.13 ### Workarounds There is no workaround for this issue – affected users are strongly encouraged to upgrade. ### Acknowledgements The Cilium community has worked together with members of Isovalent to prepare these mitigations. Special thanks to @romikps for discovering and reporting this issue, and @sayboras and @jrajahalme for preparing the fix. ### For more information If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, please reach out on [Slack](https://docs.cilium.io/en/latest/community/community/#slack). If you think you have found a vulnerability affecting Cilium, we strongly encourage you to report it to our security mailing list at [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]). This is a private mailing list for the Cilium internal security team, and your report will be treated as top priority.

Affected packages (9)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1HIGH7.2CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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