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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD9.9 Critical

CVE-2025-47284

Gardener vulnerable to metadata injection for a project secret that 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 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 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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