Unencrypted ingress/health traffic when using Wireguard transparent encryption

Impact

For Cilium users who are using CRDs to store Cilium state (the default configuration) and Wireguard transparent encryption, responses from pods to the Ingress and health endpoints are not encrypted. Traffic from the Ingress and health endpoints to pods is not affected by this issue. The health endpoint is only used for Cilium’s internal health checks.

Patches

This issue affects Cilium v1.14 before v1.14.7.

This issue has been patched in Cilium v1.14.7.

Workarounds

There is no workaround to this issue - affected users are encouraged to upgrade.

Acknowledgements

The Cilium community has worked together with members of Isovalent to prepare these mitigations. Special thanks to @gandro for their work on triaging and remediating this issue.

For more information

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