🛡️ CVE-2023-34242
🟡 CVSS 5.0 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
5.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Cilium is a networking, observability, and security solution with an eBPF-based dataplane. Prior to version 1.13.4, when Gateway API is enabled in Cilium, the absence of a check on the namespace in which a ReferenceGrant is created could result in Cilium unintentionally gaining visibility of secrets (including certificates) and services across namespaces. An attacker on an affected cluster can leverage this issue to use cluster secrets that should not be visible to them, or communicate with services that they should not have access to. Gateway API functionality is disabled by default. This vulnerability is fixed in Cilium release 1.13.4. As a workaround, restrict the creation of `ReferenceGrant` resources to admin users by using Kubernetes RBAC.

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.0
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-05-15
Updated 2026-06-15
Modified 2025-05-20
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
cilium — —
cilium-operator — —
cilium-proxy — —
github.com/cilium/cilium — —
hubble — —
hubble-relay — —
hubble-ui — —
hubble-ui-backend — —

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