Improper Privilege Management Affecting cilium-1.14 package, versions <1.14.19-r23


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.37% (29th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CHAINGUARDLATEST-CILIUM114-9509485
  • published22 Mar 2025
  • disclosed20 May 2022

Introduced: 20 May 2022

CVE-2022-29179  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Chainguard cilium-1.14 to version 1.14.19-r23 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream cilium-1.14 package and not the cilium-1.14 package as distributed by Chainguard. See How to fix? for Chainguard relevant fixed versions and status.

Cilium is open source software for providing and securing network connectivity and loadbalancing between application workloads. Prior to versions 1.9.16, 1.10.11, and 1.11.15, if an attacker is able to perform a container escape of a container running as root on a host where Cilium is installed, the attacker can escalate privileges to cluster admin by using Cilium's Kubernetes service account. The problem has been fixed and the patch is available in versions 1.9.16, 1.10.11, and 1.11.5. There are no known workarounds available.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1