CVE-2025-47284 — Gardener vulnerable to metadata injection for a project secret that can lead to privilege escalation

Description (CNA)

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 (CNA)

Vendor / product	Versions
gardener / gardener	affected < 1.116.4; affected >= 1.117.0, < 1.117.5; affected >= 1.118.0, < 1.118.2

CWE

CWE-150

References

https://github.com/gardener/gardener/security/advisories/GHSA-9x73-87fh-54w9

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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