CVE-2026-49445

high

Description

Cilium is a networking, observability, and security solution. Prior to 1.17.14, 1.18.8, and 1.19.2, when Cilium L7 functionality is enabled, the embedded or standalone Envoy instance creates a world-accessible admin.sock on cluster nodes, allowing a local attacker to access Envoy admin endpoints, expose TLS secrets, disrupt cluster traffic, or terminate Envoy. This issue is fixed in versions 1.17.14, 1.18.8, and 1.19.2.

References

https://github.com/cilium/cilium/security/advisories/GHSA-3fcv-jvfp-m4q9

https://github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.19.2

https://github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.18.8

https://github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.17.14

https://github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/44512

https://github.com/cilium/cilium/commit/7bfbdd5c1be83d6c9ba3e089b4c804b6603505b6

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-07-15

Updated: 2026-07-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00017