CVE-2024-37307 is a high-severity (CVSS 7.9) Information Exposure vulnerability in github.com/cilium/cilium. A fix is available for github.com/cilium/cilium — see the affected versions and patch details below.
Cilium leaks sensitive information in cilium-bugtool
Exploitation Status
No confirmed exploitation observed yet
- A successful exploit gives an attacker total control of the affected component, not partial access.
- CISA’s own triage has not observed active exploitation or public proof-of-concept code for this CVE as of its last assessment.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for CVE-2024-37307.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
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Real-World Exposure
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Description
Impact
The output of cilium-bugtool can contain sensitive data when the tool is run (with the --envoy-dump flag set) against Cilium deployments with the Envoy proxy enabled.
Users of the following features are affected:
- TLS inspection
- Ingress with TLS termination
- Gateway API with TLS termination
- Kafka network policies with API key filtering
The sensitive data includes:
- The CA certificate, certificate chain, and private key used by Cilium HTTP Network Policies, and when using Ingress/Gateway API
- The API keys used in Kafka-related network policy
cilium-bugtool is a debugging tool that is typically invoked manually and does not run during the normal operation of a Cilium cluster.
Patches
This issue affects:
- Cilium v1.13 between v1.13.0 and v1.13.16 inclusive
- Cilium v1.14 between v1.14.0 and v1.14.11 inclusive
- Cilium v1.15 between v1.15.0 and v1.15.5 inclusive
This issue has been patched in:
- Cilium v1.15.6
- Cilium v1.14.12
- Cilium v1.13.17
Workarounds
There is no workaround to this issue.
Acknowledgements
The Cilium community has worked together with members of Isovalent to prepare these mitigations. Special thanks to @sayboras for their work on triaging and remediating this issue.
For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, please reach out on Slack.
If you think you have found a vulnerability affecting Cilium, we strongly encourage you to report it to our security mailing list at [email protected]. This is a private mailing list for the Cilium security team, and your report will be treated as top priority.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🐹Go | github.com/cilium/cilium | ≥ 1.13.0&&< 1.13.17 | 1.13.17go get github.com/cilium/cilium@v1.13.17 |
| 🐹Go | github.com/cilium/cilium | ≥ 1.14.0&&< 1.14.12 | 1.14.12go get github.com/cilium/cilium@v1.14.12 |
| 🐹Go | github.com/cilium/cilium | ≥ 1.15.0&&< 1.15.6 | 1.15.6go get github.com/cilium/cilium@v1.15.6 |
Affected Products
ciliumciliumDetection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for github.com/cilium/cilium, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Fix
Update github.com/cilium/cilium to 1.13.17 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2024-37307 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
Workarounds
Assume what was exposed is already known: rotate any credential, token or key that the affected component could return, restrict the endpoint to callers that genuinely need it, and strip sensitive fields from responses and error output at the boundary rather than relying on the client not to read them.
Frequently Asked Questions
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