Network Policies & (Clusterwide) Cilium Network Policies with namespace label selectors…
Key facts
- Attack vector
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- Privileges required
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- User interaction
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- Attack complexity
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- Impact type
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- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
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- Fix status
- Fixed
No CVSS vector from any source. Fix status from GitHub.
Summary
### Impact If a user has Network Policies with namespace selectors selecting labels of namespaces, or (clusterwide) Cilium Network Policies matching on namespace labels, then it is possible for an attacker with Kubernetes pod deploy rights (either directly or indirectly via higher-level APIs such as Deployment, Daemonset etc) to craft additional pod labels such that the pod is selected by another policy that exists rather than the expected policy. ### Patches The problem has been fixed and is available on versions >=1.10.14, >=1.11.8, >=1.12.1 ### Workarounds There are no workarounds available. ### Acknowledgements The Cilium community has worked together with members of Isovalent to prepare these mitigations. Special thanks to Sander Mathijssen for not only highlighting the issue but also proposing a resolution. ### For more information If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, please reach out on [Slack](https://docs.cilium.io/en/latest/community/community/#slack). As usual, if you think you found a related vulnerability, we strongly encourage you to report security vulnerabilities to our private security mailing list: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) - first, before disclosing them in any public forums. This is a private mailing list where only members of the Cilium internal security team are subscribed to, and is treated as top priority.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
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| — | github.com/cilium/cilium (Go) | before 1.10.14 | 1.10.14 | Patch available | GHSA-pfhr-pccp-hwmh |
| — | github.com/cilium/cilium (Go) | 1.11.0 to before 1.11.8 | 1.11.8 | Patch available | GHSA-pfhr-pccp-hwmh |
| — | github.com/cilium/cilium (Go) | 1.12.0 to before 1.12.1 | 1.12.1 | Patch available | GHSA-pfhr-pccp-hwmh |
- github.com/cilium/cilium (Go) Vendor— Affected before 1.10.14 Fixed in 1.10.14 Patch available GHSA-pfhr-pccp-hwmh
- github.com/cilium/cilium (Go) Vendor— Affected 1.11.0 to before 1.11.8 Fixed in 1.11.8 Patch available GHSA-pfhr-pccp-hwmh
- github.com/cilium/cilium (Go) Vendor— Affected 1.12.0 to before 1.12.1 Fixed in 1.12.1 Patch available GHSA-pfhr-pccp-hwmh
Remediation
- Fix · GHSA-pfhr-pccp-hwmh github.com/cilium/cilium (Go) Fixed in 1.10.14 Advisory →
- Fix · GHSA-pfhr-pccp-hwmh github.com/cilium/cilium (Go) Fixed in 1.11.8 Advisory →
- Fix · GHSA-pfhr-pccp-hwmh github.com/cilium/cilium (Go) Fixed in 1.12.1 Advisory →
Timeline
- 2026-10-03 Threatist record created from GHSA-pfhr-pccp-hwmh
References
Sources
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