CVE-2025-47284 CRITICAL

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

Vendor Gardener
Product gardener
Weakness CWE-150
Published May 19, 2025
Last update May 20, 2025

CVSS base score

9.9/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Confidentiality High
Integrity High

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

May 19, 2025 CVE published
May 20, 2025 Record updated