CVE-2025-22021
Published: Apr 16, 2025
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: socket: Lookup orig tuple for IPv6 SNAT nf_sk_lookup_slow_v4 does the conntrack lookup for IPv4 packets to restore the original 5-tuple in case of SNAT, to be able to find the right socket (if any). Then socket_match() can correctly check whether the socket was transparent. However, the IPv6 counterpart (nf_sk_lookup_slow_v6) lacks this conntrack lookup, making xt_socket fail to match on the socket when the packet was SNATed. Add the same logic to nf_sk_lookup_slow_v6. IPv6 SNAT is used in Kubernetes clusters for pod-to-world packets, as pods' addresses are in the fd00::/8 ULA subnet and need to be replaced with the node's external address. Cilium leverages Envoy to enforce L7 policies, and Envoy uses transparent sockets. Cilium inserts an iptables prerouting rule that matches on `-m socket --transparent` and redirects the packets to localhost, but it fails to match SNATed IPv6 packets due to that missing conntrack lookup.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected eb31628e37a0a4e01fffd79dcc7f815d2357f53a - < 6488b96a79a26e19100ad872622f04e93b638d7faffected eb31628e37a0a4e01fffd79dcc7f815d2357f53a - < 58ab63d3ded2ca6141357a2b24eee8453d0f871daffected eb31628e37a0a4e01fffd79dcc7f815d2357f53a - < 1ca2169cc19dca893c7aae6af122852097435d16affected eb31628e37a0a4e01fffd79dcc7f815d2357f53a - < 1ec43100f7123010730b7ddfc3d5c2eac19e70e7affected eb31628e37a0a4e01fffd79dcc7f815d2357f53a - < 5251041573850e5020cd447374e23010be698898+4 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 3.13unaffected 0 - < 3.13unaffected 5.4.292 - <= 5.4.*unaffected 5.10.236 - <= 5.10.*unaffected 5.15.180 - <= 5.15.*+6 more versions |
References
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