Traffic interception via destination-IP-blind nftables rules
Published Dec 9, 2025 · Updated Dec 10, 2025
Traffic interception in CNI Plugins 1.6.0 through 1.8.0 allows local users to capture non-local traffic through HostPort mappings. The portmap nftables backend installs prerouting rules that match the requested destination port without restricting the destination IP to a local address. An attacker-controlled container must request HostPort on a node explicitly configured for the nondefault nftables backend, after which same-port traffic for other containers can be redirected, read, modified, or dropped.
Summary
What happened
Traffic interception in CNI Plugins 1.6.0 through 1.8.0 allows local users to capture non-local traffic through HostPort mappings. The portmap nftables backend installs prerouting rules that match the requested destination port without restricting the destination IP to a local address. An attacker-controlled container must request HostPort on a node explicitly configured for the nondefault nftables backend, after which same-port traffic for other containers can be redirected, read, modified, or dropped.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-67499
- Published
- Dec 9, 2025
- Updated
- Dec 10, 2025
- Vendor
- Container Network Interface
- Product
- CNI Plugins
- Classifications
- CWE-200, T1040
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Dec 9, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Dec 10, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=>= 1.6.0, < 1.9.0
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