CVE-2026-53935
published 2026-07-07CVE-2026-53935: Cilium is a networking, observability, and security solution. Prior to 1.17.16, from 1.18.2 to 1.18.9, and from 1.19.0 to 1.19.3, users with the ability to…
PriorityP334medium6.9CVSS 3.1
AVAACLPRHUINSCCLINAH
EPSS
0.34%
27.6th percentile
Cilium is a networking, observability, and security solution. Prior to 1.17.16, from 1.18.2 to 1.18.9, and from 1.19.0 to 1.19.3, users with the ability to create CiliumLocalRedirectPolicies can specify arbitrary ClusterIPs via addressMatcher, enabling hijacking traffic to Services in any namespace and bypassing namespace scoping enforced by serviceMatcher; deleting such a policy can also corrupt Cilium internal service state and stop service translation for the affected Service. This issue is fixed in versions 1.17.16, 1.18.10, and 1.19.4.
Affected
6 ranges
| Vendor | Product | Version range | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| cilium | cilium | < 1.17.16 | 1.17.16 |
| cilium | cilium | — | — |
| cilium | cilium | — | — |
| github.com | cilium_cilium | >= 0 < 1.17.16 | 1.17.16 |
| github.com | cilium_cilium | >= 1.18.2 < 1.18.10 | 1.18.10 |
| github.com | cilium_cilium | >= 1.19.0 < 1.19.4 | 1.19.4 |
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VulDB
Cilium up to 1.17.15/1.18.9/1.19.3 CiliumLocalRedirectPolicy addressMatcher redirect
vuldb·2026-07-07·CVSS 6.9
CVE-2026-53935 [MEDIUM] Cilium up to 1.17.15/1.18.9/1.19.3 CiliumLocalRedirectPolicy addressMatcher redirect
A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Cilium up to 1.17.15/1.18.9/1.19.3. Impacted is an unknown function of the component CiliumLocalRedirectPolicy. Such manipulation of the argument addressMatcher leads to open redirect.
This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2026-53935. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. No exploit is available.
GHSA
CiliumLocalRedirectPolicy addressMatcher allows cross-namespace service traffic hijacking and can break service translation
ghsa·2026-07-06
CVE-2026-53935 [MEDIUM] CWE-601 CiliumLocalRedirectPolicy addressMatcher allows cross-namespace service traffic hijacking and can break service translation
CiliumLocalRedirectPolicy addressMatcher allows cross-namespace service traffic hijacking and can break service translation
### Impact
Users with the ability to create CiliumLocalRedirectPolicies can specify arbitrary ClusterIPs via addressMatcher, which enables hijacking traffic to Services in any namespace, bypassing the namespace-scoping guarantees enforced by serviceMatcher.
In addition, deleting such a policy can corrupt Cilium's internal service state, causing service translation to stop working entirely for the affected Service.
### Patches
This issue affects:
- Cilium v1.19.0 to v1.19.3 inclusive (fixed in PR #45584)
- Cilium v1.18.2 to v1.18.9 inclusive (fixed in PR #45585)
- All versions of Cilium prior to v1.17.16 (fixed in PR #45412)
This issue has been patched in:
- Ci
No detection rules found.
No public exploits indexed.
No writeups or analysis indexed.
https://github.com/cilium/cilium/commit/81d446395673dc2c684c047c12715caffac1a351https://github.com/cilium/cilium/commit/92ca32eda85aa0c7611c28221cc26fa08be17ebchttps://github.com/cilium/cilium/commit/fe7eb53c7aac9fa7ec610b1975d73fbbb198c66dhttps://github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/45412https://github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/45584https://github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/45585https://github.com/cilium/cilium/security/advisories/GHSA-q6h5-q3q6-f87x
2026-07-07
Published