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CVE-2025-47283GO-2025-3696GHSA-3HW7-QJ9H-R835

Bypassing project secret validation can lead to privilege escalation

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 1.116.4, 1.117.5, 1.118.2
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: total

Summary

Gardener implements the automated management and operation of Kubernetes clusters as a service. A security vulnerability was discovered in Gardener prior to versions 1.116.4, 1.117.5, 1.118.2, and 1.119.0 that 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 no matter of the public cloud provider(s) used for the seed clusters/shoot clusters. `gardener/gardener` (`gardenlet`) is the affected component. Versions 1.116.4, 1.117.5, 1.118.2, and 1.119.0 fix the issue.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • gardener gardener

    fixed in 1.116.4; From 1.117.0 · fixed in 1.117.5; From 1.118.0 · fixed in 1.118.2

  • github.com/gardener/gardenerGo

    fixed in 1.116.4; From 1.117.0 · fixed in 1.117.5; From 1.118.0 · fixed in 1.118.2

  • github.com/gardener/gardenerGo

    fixed in 1.116.4

  • github.com/gardener/gardenerGo

    From 1.117.0 · fixed in 1.117.5

  • github.com/gardener/gardenerGo

    From 1.118.0 · fixed in 1.118.2

References 5

GitHub · gardener/gardener