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SCA: security update for github.com/cilium/cilium (GHSA-qcm3-7879-xcww)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 418067

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - Cilium is a networking, observability, and security solution with an eBPF-based dataplane. In the 1.15
 branch prior to 1.15.8 and the 1.16 branch prior to 1.16.1, Gateway API HTTPRoutes and GRPCRoutes do not
 follow the match precedence specified in the Gateway API specification. In particular, request headers are
 matched before request methods, when the specification describes that the request methods must be
 respected before headers are matched. This could result in unexpected behaviour with security This issue
 is fixed in Cilium v1.15.8 and v1.16.1. There is no workaround for this issue. (CVE-2024-42487)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qcm3-7879-xcww

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 418067

Version: Revision 1.8

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-42487

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/15/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/15/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-42487