CVE-2025-22021

Technical 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 missin

Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from linux. Update linux_kernel to the latest patched version. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

Affected Products

References