Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-28249

Medium

Published: 18 March 2024

Published
18 March 2024
Modified
09 January 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0030 53.9th percentile
Risk Priority 12 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-28249 is a medium-severity Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data (CWE-311) vulnerability in Cilium Cilium. Its CVSS base score is 6.1 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 46.1% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Cilium is a networking, observability, and security solution with an eBPF-based dataplane. Prior to versions 1.13.13, 1.14.8, and 1.15.2, in Cilium clusters with IPsec enabled and traffic matching Layer 7 policies, IPsec-eligible traffic between a node's Envoy proxy and pods…

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on other nodes is sent unencrypted and IPsec-eligible traffic between a node's DNS proxy and pods on other nodes is sent unencrypted. This issue has been resolved in Cilium 1.15.2, 1.14.8, and 1.13.13. There is no known workaround for this issue.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

cilium
cilium
≤ 1.13.13 · 1.14.0 — 1.14.8 · 1.15.0 — 1.15.2

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-311 CWE-319

Privacy and security training stresses encryption of sensitive data, reducing missing encryption weaknesses.

addresses: CWE-311 CWE-319

Exchange agreements must document security requirements, which would include encryption to protect sensitive data in transit.

addresses: CWE-311 CWE-319

The map highlights data actions that involve sensitive data, enabling identification of missing encryption requirements.

addresses: CWE-311 CWE-319

Settings can require encryption of sensitive data, preventing missing encryption weaknesses.

addresses: CWE-311 CWE-319

Requires encryption and similar controls for CUI processed or stored externally, preventing missing encryption of sensitive data.

addresses: CWE-311 CWE-319

Privacy and security requirements placed on external providers, together with monitoring, tangibly reduce missing encryption of sensitive data processed or stored by those services.

addresses: CWE-311 CWE-319

Mandates encryption for specified data uses, directly preventing missing encryption of sensitive information.

addresses: CWE-319

Policy addresses secure transport and handling of media to avoid cleartext transmission of sensitive information.

References