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CVE-2018-1267: Silk permits routing to all applications if ASG overlaps with overlay network

CVE-2018-1267: Silk permits routing to all applications if ASG overlaps with overlay network

Severity

Medium

Vendor

Cloud Foundry Foundation

Affected Cloud Foundry Products and Versions

  • You are using Silk release version prior to 0.2.0
  • You are using cf-deployment with experimental ops file ‘use-silk-release.yml’ version prior to 1.21.0

Description

Cloud Foundry Silk CNI plugin, versions prior to 0.2.0, contains an improper access control vulnerability. If the platform is configured with an application security group (ASG) that overlaps with the Silk overlay network, any applications can reach any other application on the network regardless of the configured routing policies.

Mitigation

Users of affected versions should apply the following mitigations or upgrades:

  • Releases that have fixed this issue include:
    • Silk release 0.2.0
    • cf-deployment 1.21.0

Credit

This issue was responsibly reported by the CF Networking team.

History

2018-03-26: Clarified issue description

2018-03-26: Initial vulnerability report published.

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Cloud Foundry Foundation Security Team, AUTHOR

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