GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Go
GHSA-fm8w-2m5w-9j7r Cilium may unexpectedly allow ingress traffic from the local namespace when a Kubernetes NetworkPolicy is configured with an ipBlock match
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- Aliases
- CVE-2026-56743
- Ecosystem
- Go
- Packages
- github.com/cilium/cilium
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-863
- Reviewed
- 2026-09-03
Affected packages
• Go github.com/cilium/cilium: >= 1.19.0, < 1.19.5 → fixed in 1.19.5
Description
Impact
Standard Kubernetes `NetworkPolicy` specifications using CIDR-based `ipBlock` rules without pod or namespace selectors erroneously generate a wildcard namespace allow rule under specific cluster configurations.
When Cilium deployment is configured with a specific custom `clusterName` (rather than the default `"any"` value), the parser incorrectly instantiates a pod selector on selectorless peer definitions. This leads to Cilium appending an unintended wildcard namespace label selector to the policy's allowed Layer 3 rules, which allows traffic from other workloads in the same namespace as the subject of the policy.
Example policy affected by this issue:
```
apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: NetworkPolicy
metadata:
name: test-server
namespace: default
spec:
podSelector:
matchLabels:
app: test-server
policyTypes:
• Ingress
ingress:
• from:
• ipBlock:
cidr: 192.0.2.3
```
In affected versions, this policy erroneously allows the `test-server` Pod in the `default` namespace to receive any traffic from other workloads running in the `default` namespace.
Patches
This issue has been patched in:
• Cilium v1.19.5
Releases below v1.19.0 are not affected.
This issue affects:
• Cilium v1.19 between v1.19.0 and v1.19.4 inclusive
Workarounds
Developers can create the equivalent policy using CiliumNetworkPolicy fromCIDR expressions. CiliumNetworkPolicy and CiliumClusterwideNetworkPolicy are not affected by this issue.
Acknowledgements
Special thanks to @TheBeeZee for reporting this issue and preparing the fix, and to @fristonio and @odinuge for their assistance in reviewing the solution.
For more information
If a vulnerability affecting Cilium appears to have been found, the Cilium security team strongly encourages reporting it to the security mailing list at [email protected]. This is a private mailing list for the Cilium security team, and the report will be treated as top priority.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2026-56743 Cilium is a networking, observability, and security solution. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization weakness
References
- https://github.com/cilium/cilium/security/advisories/GHSA-fm8w-2m5w-9j7r web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-56743 advisory
- https://github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/46305 web
- https://github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/46456 web
- https://github.com/cilium/cilium/commit/1c84ae3b58a7cd54f7ee355e6c524c82f620eae8 web
- https://github.com/cilium/cilium/commit/bacea640404c0805c23515353dc1681c5bf35171 web
- https://github.com/cilium/cilium package
- https://github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.19.5 web