CVE-2025-55205 CRITICAL

CVE-2025-55205: Capsule tenant owners with "patch namespace" permission can hijack system namespaces label

Vendor Projectcapsule
Product capsule
Weakness CWE-863 · Incorrect authorization
Published August 18, 2025
Last update August 18, 2025

CVSS base score

9.1/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction Required
Confidentiality High
Integrity High

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Capsule is a multi-tenancy and policy-based framework for Kubernetes. A namespace label injection vulnerability in Capsule v0.10.3 and earlier allows authenticated tenant users to inject arbitrary labels into system namespaces (kube-system, default, capsule-system), bypassing multi-tenant isolation and potentially accessing cross-tenant resources through TenantResource selectors. This vulnerability enables privilege escalation and violates the fundamental security boundaries that Capsule is designed to enforce. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.10.4.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

August 18, 2025 CVE published
August 18, 2025 Record updated