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CVE-2024-28249

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2024-28249 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting Cilium versions prior to 1.13.13, 1.14.8, and 1.15.2. It allows unencrypted transmission of IPsec-eligible traffic between a node's Envoy/DNS proxy and pods on other nodes when IPsec is enabled and Layer 7 policies are in use. The CVSS score of 6.1 indicates an adjacent attack vector, high attack complexity, and potential for high confidentiality impact. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.13.13CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cilium:cilium:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 1.14.0, < 1.14.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cilium:cilium:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 1.15.0, < 1.15.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cilium:cilium:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.1MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.6
Impact Score
4.0
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.27%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
19.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0027 is in the 50th percentile among its peer group of 1,749 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.0 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 (4)

gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/cilium/ciliumFixed in: 1.13.13
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/cilium/ciliumFixed in: 1.14.8
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/cilium/ciliumFixed in: 1.15.2
github_advisoryvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

goGHSA-j89h-qrvr-xc36medium

Unencrypted traffic between nodes when using IPsec and L7 policies

Mar 18, 2024

References

github.com / cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.13.13
Release Notes
github.com / cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.14.8
Release Notes
github.com / cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.15.2
Release Notes
github.com / cilium/cilium/security/advisories/GHSA-j89h-qrvr-xc36
Vendor Advisory