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CVE-2022-29179

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-29179 affects Cilium versions prior to 1.9.16, 1.10.11, and 1.11.15. This high-severity vulnerability (CVSS 8.2) allows an attacker who has achieved a container escape from a root-run container to escalate privileges to cluster administrator. The attack requires high privileges (PR:H) and has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:H, I:H, A:H). There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.9.16CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cilium:cilium:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 1.10.0, < 1.10.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cilium:cilium:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 1.11.0, < 1.11.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cilium:cilium:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
0.8
Impact Score
6.0
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.35%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
27.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0035 is in the 59th percentile among its peer group of 360 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/cilium/ciliumFixed in: 1.11.5
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/cilium/ciliumFixed in: 1.10.11
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/cilium/ciliumFixed in: 1.9.16

Vendor Advisories (1)

goGHSA-fmrf-gvjp-5j5ghigh

Improper Privilege Management in Cilium

May 24, 2022

References

github.com / cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.10.11
Release NotesThird Party Advisory
github.com / cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.11.5
Release NotesThird Party Advisory
github.com / cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.9.16
Release NotesThird Party Advisory
github.com / cilium/cilium/security/advisories/GHSA-fmrf-gvjp-5j5g
Third Party Advisory