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CVE-2025-59823GO-2025-3981GHSA-227X-7MH8-3CF6

Gardener providers vulnerable to code injection when Terraformer is used for infrastructure provisioning

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 1.64.0, 1.55.0, 1.49.0, 1.46.0
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: total

Summary

Project Gardener implements the automated management and operation of Kubernetes clusters as a service. Code injection may be possible in Gardener Extensions for AWS providers prior to version 1.64.0, Azure providers prior to version 1.55.0, OpenStack providers prior to version 1.49.0, and GCP providers prior to version 1.46.0. This vulnerability could allow a user with administrative privileges for a Gardener project to obtain control over the seed cluster where the shoot cluster is managed. This affects all Gardener installations where Terraformer is used/can be enabled for infrastructure provisioning with any of the affected components. This issue has been patched in Gardener Extensions for AWS providers version 1.64.0, Azure providers version 1.55.0, OpenStack providers version 1.49.0, and GCP providers version 1.46.0.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

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

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • gardener gardener-extension-provider-aws

    fixed in 1.64.0; fixed in 1.55.0; fixed in 1.49.0; fixed in 1.46.0

  • github.com/gardener/gardener-extension-provider-awsGo

    fixed in 1.64.0

  • github.com/gardener/gardener-extension-provider-azureGo

    fixed in 1.55.0

  • github.com/gardener/gardener-extension-provider-gcpGo

    fixed in 1.46.0

  • github.com/gardener/gardener-extension-provider-openstackGo

    fixed in 1.49.0

References 5

GitHub · gardener/gardener-extension-provider-aws

GitHub · gardener/gardener-extension-provider-azure

GitHub · gardener/gardener-extension-provider-gcp

GitHub · gardener/gardener-extension-provider-openstack