Skip to content
Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2022-29179 json

Improper Privilege Management in Cilium

published 2022-05-20 4 y ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also 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

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 30%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/cilium/cilium 1.9.16, 1.10.11, 1.11.5
  • bitnami cilium 1.9.16, 1.10.11, 1.11.5
  • bitnami cilium-operator 1.9.16, 1.10.11, 1.11.5
  • bitnami cilium-proxy 1.9.16, 1.10.11, 1.11.5
  • bitnami hubble 1.9.16, 1.10.11, 1.11.5
  • bitnami hubble-relay 1.9.16, 1.10.11, 1.11.5
  • bitnami hubble-ui 1.9.16, 1.10.11, 1.11.5
  • bitnami hubble-ui-backend 1.9.16, 1.10.11, 1.11.5
  • cilium cilium 1.9.16, 1.10.11, 1.11.5

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
18 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.36% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 30% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
GitHub 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 8.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.2 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
OSV 3.1 8.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/cilium/cilium
>=1.11.0, <1.11.5
>=1.10.0, <1.10.11
<1.9.16
1.11.5
1.10.11
1.9.16
bitnami cilium
<1.9.16
>=1.10.0, <1.10.11
>=1.11.0, <1.11.5
1.9.16
1.10.11
1.11.5
bitnami cilium-operator
<1.9.16
>=1.10.0, <1.10.11
>=1.11.0, <1.11.5
1.9.16
1.10.11
1.11.5
bitnami cilium-proxy
<1.9.16
>=1.10.0, <1.10.11
>=1.11.0, <1.11.5
1.9.16
1.10.11
1.11.5
bitnami hubble
<1.9.16
>=1.10.0, <1.10.11
>=1.11.0, <1.11.5
1.9.16
1.10.11
1.11.5
bitnami hubble-relay
<1.9.16
>=1.10.0, <1.10.11
>=1.11.0, <1.11.5
1.9.16
1.10.11
1.11.5
bitnami hubble-ui
<1.9.16
>=1.10.0, <1.10.11
>=1.11.0, <1.11.5
1.9.16
1.10.11
1.11.5
bitnami hubble-ui-backend
<1.9.16
>=1.10.0, <1.10.11
>=1.11.0, <1.11.5
1.9.16
1.10.11
1.11.5

Affected products

  • cilium cilium

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.