๐Ÿ” CVE Alert

CVE-2026-65960

HIGH 8.8

Tetragon: Unauthenticated Tetragon gRPC admin API accessible from hostNetwork pods

CVSS Score
8.8
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

Tetragon is an eBPF-based security observability and runtime enforcement project. Versions before 1.7.0 can use a Helm default that exposes the privileged Tetragon gRPC API through an unauthenticated TCP listener on localhost:54321. An attacker who can run or compromise same-node hostNetwork pods can reach the listener and invoke privileged methods without authentication. These methods can add, delete, or reconfigure tracing policies and change debug settings, potentially resulting in privilege escalation or container escape. Version 1.7.0 changes the default endpoint to a Unix-domain socket. Deployments that do not expose an unauthenticated TCP listener are not affected.

CWE CWE-306
Vendor cilium
Product tetragon
Published Nov 6, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

Affected Versions

cilium / tetragon
< 1.7.0

References

NVD โ†— CVE.org โ†— EPSS Data โ†—
github.com: https://github.com/cilium/tetragon/security/advisories/GHSA-6qqg-3qf7-p3v5 github.com: https://github.com/cilium/tetragon/pull/4882 github.com: https://github.com/cilium/tetragon/commit/8e89933d3526f37c04f7523013ff32f8b1c6f62a github.com: https://github.com/cilium/tetragon/commit/fe46101770b960ebbf39fe9749bb20d49cf178b2 github.com: https://github.com/cilium/tetragon/releases/tag/v1.7.0