CVE-2026-49445 Cilium: Sensitive information disclosure and cluster disruption via local Envoy admin socket access

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,...

CVE-2026-49445

Cilium CVE-2026-49445 : When L7 is enabled, embedded or standalone Envoy creates a world-accessible admin.sock on cluster nodes, enabling a local attacker to access Envoy admin endpoints, potentially expose TLS secrets, disrupt traffic, or terminate Envoy. Affected are Cilium releases prior to 1....

CVE-2026-49445 Cilium: Sensitive information disclosure and cluster disruption via local Envoy admin socket access

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,...

Missing Authorization

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Missing Authorization via the Envoy admin socket when L7 functionality is enabled. An attacker can access sensitive information or disrupt cluster operations by connecting to the world-accessible socket and invoking administrative...

Cilium vulnerable to sensitive information disclosure and cluster disruption via local Envoy admin socket access

Impact When Cilium L7 functionality is enabled on a cluster, the Envoy instance supporting this functionality creates a world-accessible socket on cluster nodes. A local attacker would be able to access Envoy admin endpoints. Depending on deployment configuration, this can expose sensitive...