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CVE-2025-47284

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

EPSS 0.5%CVSS 9.9
critical.is priorityof 100
38
CVSS 9.9 (CNA, NVD agree)9.9 / 10 × 3029.7Not in CISA KEV+300.0EPSS percentile 40.6.406 × 208.1No public exploit+100.0SSVC exploitation: none+100.0
Description · from the CVE record

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.

Affected

ProductAffectedFixed inSource
gardener< 1.116.4–CNA
gardener>= 1.117.0, < 1.117.5–CNA
gardener>= 1.118.0, < 1.118.2–CNA

Scores by source

GitHub_M (CNA)9.9CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD9.9CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA ADPSSVCExploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

References

refgithub.com/gardener/gardener/security/advisories/GHSA-9x73-87fh-54w9