CVE-2024-37307

HIGH7.9EPSS 0.05%

Cilium leaks sensitive information in cilium-bugtool

Published: 6/13/2024Modified: 2/4/2026

Description

### Impact The output of `cilium-bugtool` can contain sensitive data when the tool is run (with the `--envoy-dump` flag set) against Cilium deployments with the Envoy proxy enabled. Users of the following features are affected: - [TLS inspection](https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/security/tls-visibility/#gs-tls-inspection) - [Ingress with TLS termination](https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/network/servicemesh/tls-termination/#gs-ingress-tls) - [Gateway API with TLS termination](https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/network/servicemesh/gateway-api/https/) - [Kafka network policies with API key filtering](https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/security/policy/language/#kafka-beta) The sensitive data includes: - The CA certificate, certificate chain, and private key used by Cilium HTTP Network Policies, and when using Ingress/Gateway API - The API keys used in Kafka-related network policy `cilium-bugtool` is a debugging tool that is typically invoked manually and does not run during the normal operation of a Cilium cluster. ### Patches This issue affects: - Cilium v1.13 between v1.13.0 and v1.13.16 inclusive - Cilium v1.14 between v1.14.0 and v1.14.11 inclusive - Cilium v1.15 between v1.15.0 and v1.15.5 inclusive This issue has been patched in: - Cilium v1.15.6 - Cilium v1.14.12 - Cilium v1.13.17 ### Workarounds There is no workaround to this issue. ### Acknowledgements The Cilium community has worked together with members of Isovalent to prepare these mitigations. Special thanks to @sayboras for their work on triaging and remediating this issue. ### 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 security team, and your report will be treated as top priority.

Affected packages (9)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1HIGH7.9CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

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