CVE-2024-25631
Unencrypted traffic between pods when using Wireguard and an external kvstore
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- GitHub_M
Description
Cilium is a networking, observability, and security solution with an eBPF-based dataplane. For Cilium users who have enabled an external kvstore and Wireguard transparent encryption, traffic between pods in the affected cluster is not encrypted. This issue affects Cilium v1.14 before v1.14.7 and has been patched in Cilium v1.14.7. There is no workaround to this issue.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 12 days later
· 12 days later
Published
- 6 months later
· 6 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium6.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.20% · top 90% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.1.
Weakness
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogithub.com/cilium/ciliumGHSA-x989-52fc-4vr4 (opens in a new tab)
References (4)
- https://github.com/cilium/cilium/security/advisories/GHSA-x989-52fc-4vr4 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/installation/k8s-install-external-etcd/#when-do-i-need-to-use-a-kvstore (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/security/network/encryption-wireguard/#encryption-wg (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.14.7 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-x989-52fc-4vr4 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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