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CVE-2023-28114

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-28114 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting cilium-cli versions prior to 0.13.2. It allows for the removal of user permission enforcement on the etcd store when cilium-cli is used to configure cluster mesh functionality, potentially allowing an attacker with existing etcd credentials to modify cluster state. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.1 (MEDIUM) with an attack vector of adjacent network and low attack complexity, resulting in a potential impact of low integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 0.13.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cilium:cilium-cli:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

4.8MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.7
Impact Score
2.7
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.19%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
9.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0019 is in the 12th percentile among its peer group of 314 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/cilium/cilium-cliFixed in: 0.13.2

Vendor Advisories (1)

goGHSA-6f27-3p6c-p5jcmedium

`cilium-cli` disables etcd authorization for clustermesh clusters

Mar 21, 2023

References

artifacthub.io / packages/helm/cilium/cilium
Product
github.com / cilium/cilium-cli/commit/fb1427025764e1eebc4a7710d902c4f22cae2610
Patch
github.com / cilium/cilium-cli/releases/tag/v0.13.2
Release Notes
github.com / cilium/cilium-cli/security/advisories/GHSA-6f27-3p6c-p5jc
Vendor Advisory