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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD9.9 Critical

CVE-2025-47283

Bypassing project secret validation can lead to privilege escalation

Description

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.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

gardener gardener

  • < 1.116.4affected
  • >= 1.117.0, < 1.117.5affected
  • >= 1.118.0, < 1.118.2affected

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