---
id: CVE-2024-28248
aliases:
  - GHSA-68mj-9pjq-mc85
  - BIT-cilium-2024-28248
  - BIT-cilium-operator-2024-28248
  - BIT-cilium-proxy-2024-28248
  - BIT-hubble-2024-28248
  - BIT-hubble-relay-2024-28248
  - BIT-hubble-ui-2024-28248
  - BIT-hubble-ui-backend-2024-28248
  - GO-2024-2653
title: Intermittent HTTP policy bypass
summary: Intermittent HTTP policy bypass
severity: high
cvss: 7.2
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'
vendor: cilium
product: github.com/cilium/cilium
ecosystem: go
affected:
  - 'github.com/cilium/cilium >= 1.13.9, < 1.13.13'
  - 'github.com/cilium/cilium >= 1.14.0, < 1.14.8'
  - 'github.com/cilium/cilium >= 1.15.0, < 1.15.2'
patched:
  - github.com/cilium/cilium 1.13.13
  - github.com/cilium/cilium 1.14.8
  - github.com/cilium/cilium 1.15.2
published: '2024-03-18'
updated: '2026-09-10'
sourceUpdated: '2026-09-10T03:50:10.273714711Z'
source: OSV
sourceUrl: 'https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-68mj-9pjq-mc85'
references:
  - url: 'https://github.com/cilium/cilium/security/advisories/GHSA-68mj-9pjq-mc85'
  - url: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-28248'
  - url: 'https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/security/policy/language/#http'
  - url: 'https://github.com/cilium/cilium'
  - url: 'https://github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.13.13'
  - url: 'https://github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.14.8'
  - url: 'https://github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.15.2'
tags:
  - osv
  - go
epss: 0.0062
epssPercentile: 0.48363
ingestedAt: '2026-09-12T03:13:01.758Z'
---

## Overview

### Impact

Cilium's [HTTP policies](https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/security/policy/language/#http) are not consistently applied to all traffic in the scope of the policies, leading to HTTP traffic being incorrectly and intermittently forwarded when it should be dropped.

### Patches

This issue affects:

* Cilium v1.13 between v1.13.9 and v1.13.12 inclusive
* Cilium v1.14 between v1.14.0 and v1.14.7 inclusive
* Cilium v1.15.0 and v1.15.1

This issue has been patched in:

* Cilium v1.15.2
* Cilium v1.14.8
* Cilium v1.13.13

### Workarounds

There is no workaround for this issue – affected users are strongly encouraged to upgrade.

### Acknowledgements

The Cilium community has worked together with members of Isovalent to prepare these mitigations. Special thanks to @romikps for discovering and reporting this issue, and @sayboras and @jrajahalme for preparing the fix.

### For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, please reach out on [Slack](https://docs.cilium.io/en/latest/community/community/#slack).

If you think you have found a vulnerability affecting Cilium, we strongly encourage you to report it to our security mailing list at [security@cilium.io](mailto:security@cilium.io). This is a private mailing list for the Cilium internal security team, and your report will be treated as top priority.

## Affected packages

- `github.com/cilium/cilium >= 1.13.9, < 1.13.13`
- `github.com/cilium/cilium >= 1.14.0, < 1.14.8`
- `github.com/cilium/cilium >= 1.15.0, < 1.15.2`

## Remediation

Upgrade to a patched release:

- `github.com/cilium/cilium 1.13.13`
- `github.com/cilium/cilium 1.14.8`
- `github.com/cilium/cilium 1.15.2`