Cilium
CVE-2025-32793
MEDIUM
Severity by source
AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
Primary rating from GitHub Advisory.
CVSS VectorGitHub Advisory
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
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3DescriptionGitHub Advisory
Cilium is a networking, observability, and security solution with an eBPF-based dataplane. Versions 1.15.0 to 1.15.15, 1.16.0 to 1.16.8, and 1.17.0 to 1.17.2, are vulnerable when using Wireguard transparent encryption in a Cilium cluster, packets that originate from a terminating endpoint can leave the source node without encryption due to a race condition in how traffic is processed by Cilium. This issue has been patched in versions 1.15.16, 1.16.9, and 1.17.3. There are no workarounds available for this issue.
AnalysisAI
Cilium is a networking, observability, and security solution with an eBPF-based dataplane. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required.
Technical ContextAI
This vulnerability is classified under CWE-319. Cilium is a networking, observability, and security solution with an eBPF-based dataplane. Versions 1.15.0 to 1.15.15, 1.16.0 to 1.16.8, and 1.17.0 to 1.17.2, are vulnerable when using Wireguard transparent encryption in a Cilium cluster, packets that originate from a terminating endpoint can leave the source node without encryption due to a race condition in how traffic is processed by Cilium. This issue has been patched in versions 1.15.16, 1.16.9, and 1.17.3. There are no workarounds available for this issue. Affected products include: Cilium.
RemediationAI
A vendor patch is available. Apply the latest security update as soon as possible. Apply vendor patches when available. Implement network segmentation and monitoring as interim mitigations.
Vendor StatusVendor
SUSE
Severity: Low| Product | Status |
|---|---|
| Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/baremetal-os-container:latest Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/base-os-container:latest Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/kvm-os-container:latest Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/rt-os-container:latest Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/toolbox:latest Image SL-Micro Image SLE-Micro Image SLE-Micro-Azure Image SLE-Micro-BYOS Image SLE-Micro-BYOS-Azure Image SLE-Micro-BYOS-EC2 Image SLE-Micro-BYOS-GCE Image SLE-Micro-EC2 Image SLE-Micro-GCE | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 | Fixed |
| openSUSE Tumbleweed | Fixed |
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