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Tag: VPC CNI

Problems related to the VPC CNI (Container Network Interface) plugin.

IDTitleDescriptionCategoryTechnologyTags
CRE-2025-0057
Low
Impact: 3/10
Mitigation: 1/10
Verbose Logging in AWS Network Policy Agent During Policy Verdicts- When using AWS Network Policy Agent with VPC CNI addon v1.17.1, the log message `failed to get caller` may appear frequently. - This behavior correlates with policy verdicts being evaluated, and the volume increases in environments with higher traffic or more active policies. - The issue does not indicate functional failure, but it increases log volume and may obscure real issues.Logging Problemseks-nodeagentAWSVPC CNILog Noise
CRE-2025-0112
Critical
Impact: 10/10
Mitigation: 4/10
AWS VPC CNI Node IP Pool Depletion CrisisCritical AWS VPC CNI node IP pool depletion detected causing cascading pod scheduling failures. This pattern indicates severe subnet IP address exhaustion combined with ENI allocation failures, leading to complete cluster networking breakdown. The failure sequence shows ipamd errors, kubelet scheduling failures, and controller-level pod creation blocks that render clusters unable to deploy new workloads, scale existing services, or recover from node failures. This represents one of the most severe Kubernetes infrastructure failures, often requiring immediate manual intervention including subnet expansion, secondary CIDR provisioning, or emergency workload termination to restore cluster functionality.VPC CNI Problemsaws-vpc-cniAWSEKSKubernetesNetworkingVPC CNIAWS CNIIP ExhaustionENI AllocationSubnet ExhaustionPod Scheduling FailureCluster ParalysisAWS API LimitsKnown ProblemCritical InfrastructureService OutageCascading FailureCapacity ExceededScalability IssueRevenue ImpactCompliance ViolationThreshold ExceededInfrastructurePublic
CRE-2025-0122
Critical
Impact: 10/10
Mitigation: 6/10
AWS VPC CNI IP Address Exhaustion CrisisCritical AWS VPC CNI IP address exhaustion detected. This pattern indicates cascading failures where subnet IP exhaustion leads to ENI allocation failures, pod scheduling failures, and complete service unavailability. The failure sequence shows IP allocation errors, ENI attachment failures, and resulting pod startup failures that affect cluster scalability and workload deployment.Networking Problemsaws-vpc-cniAWSVPC CNIKubernetesNetworkingIP ExhaustionENI AllocationPod SchedulingCluster ScalingHigh AvailabilityService Unavailability