{"id":"CVE-2022-29179","aliases":["BIT-cilium-2022-29179","BIT-cilium-operator-2022-29179","BIT-cilium-proxy-2022-29179","BIT-hubble-2022-29179","BIT-hubble-relay-2022-29179","BIT-hubble-ui-2022-29179","BIT-hubble-ui-backend-2022-29179","EUVD-2022-3809","GHSA-fmrf-gvjp-5j5g","GO-2022-0458"],"status":"published","title":"Improper Privilege Management in Cilium","description":"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. 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In affected releases, this service account had access to modify and delete `Pod` and `Node` resources. \n\n### Patches\n\nThe problem has been fixed and is available on versions \u003e=1.9.16, \u003e=1.10.11, \u003e=1.11.5\n\n### Workarounds\n\nThere are no workarounds available.\n\n### Acknowledgements\n\nThe Cilium community has worked together with members of Isovalent, Amazon and Palo Alto Networks to prepare these mitigations.  Special thanks to Micah Hausler (AWS), Robert Clark (AWS), Yuval Avrahami (Palo Alto Networks), and Shaul Ben Hai (Palo Alto Networks) for their cooperation.\n\n### For more information\n\nIf you have any questions or comments about this advisory:\n\nEmail us at [security@cilium.io](mailto:security@cilium.io)","status":"published","published":"2022-05-24T21:15:15Z","modified":"2023-01-30T05:06:32Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high"}],"cwes":["CWE-269"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:36:28.424013Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2022-29179","description":"Cilium is open source software for providing and securing network connectivity and loadbalancing between application workloads. 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In affected releases, this service account had access to modify and delete `Pod` and `Node` resources. \n\n### Patches\n\nThe problem has been fixed and is available on versions \u003e=1.9.16, \u003e=1.10.11, \u003e=1.11.5\n\n### Workarounds\n\nThere are no workarounds available.\n\n### Acknowledgements\n\nThe Cilium community has worked together with members of Isovalent, Amazon and Palo Alto Networks to prepare these mitigations.  Special thanks to Micah Hausler (AWS), Robert Clark (AWS), Yuval Avrahami (Palo Alto Networks), and Shaul Ben Hai (Palo Alto Networks) for their cooperation.\n\n### For more information\n\nIf you have any questions or comments about this advisory:\n\nEmail us at [security@cilium.io](mailto:security@cilium.io)","status":"published","published":"2022-05-24T21:15:15Z","modified":"2026-09-10T03:49:22.524196223Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high"}],"cwes":["CWE-269"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:46:46.760785Z"},{"id":"BIT-cilium-2022-29179","title":"Improper Privilege Management in Cilium","description":"Cilium is open source software for providing and securing network connectivity and loadbalancing between application workloads. 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