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.
| Vendor | Product | Version(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 version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
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