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GHSA-9X73-87FH-54W9

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-05-19 21:09 – Updated: 2025-05-19 21:48

Summary

Gardener allows metadata injection for a project secret which can lead to privilege escalation

Details

A security vulnerability was discovered in the gardenlet component of Gardener. It could allow a user with administrative privileges for a Gardener project to obtain control over the seed cluster(s) where their shoot clusters are managed.

Am I Vulnerable?

This CVE affects all Gardener installations where https://github.com/gardener/gardener-extension-provider-gcp is in use.

Affected Components

gardener/gardener (gardenlet)

Affected Versions

< v1.116.4
< v1.117.5
< v1.118.2
< v1.119.0

Fixed Versions

>= v1.116.4
>= v1.117.5
>= v1.118.2
>= v1.119.0

How do I mitigate this vulnerability?

Update to a fixed version.

Severity

9.9 (Critical)


                  
                    CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

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CVE-2025-47284 (GCVE-0-2025-47284)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-19 18:52 – Updated: 2025-05-20 13:03

Title

Gardener vulnerable to metadata injection for a project secret that can lead to privilege escalation

Summary

Gardener implements the automated management and operation of Kubernetes clusters as a service. A security vulnerability was discovered in the `gardenlet` component of Gardener prior to versions 1.116.4, 1.117.5, 1.118.2, and 1.119.0. It could allow a user with administrative privileges for a Gardener project to obtain control over the seed cluster(s) where their shoot clusters are managed. This CVE affects all Gardener installations where gardener/gardener-extension-provider-gcp is in use. Versions 1.116.4, 1.117.5, 1.118.2, and 1.119.0 fix the issue.

Severity

9.9 (Critical)


                        
                          CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-05-20 13:03 UTC

CWE

CWE-150 - Improper Neutralization of Escape, Meta, or Control Sequences

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://github.com/gardener/gardener/security/adv…	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
gardener	gardener	Affected: < 1.116.4 Affected: >= 1.117.0, < 1.117.5 Affected: >= 1.118.0, < 1.118.2

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