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Critical · 9.9 CVE-2025-47283 EUVD-2025-15799GHSA-3hw7-qj9h-r835GO-2025-3696

Bypassing project secret validation can lead to privilege escalation

Published May 19, 2025 · Updated Feb 6, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

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

VendorProductAffectedFixed
gardener gardener < 1.116.4, >= 1.117.0, < 1.117.5, >= 1.118.0, < 1.118.2 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20250523T151856-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2025:15159-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/gardener/gardener < 1.116.4 1.116.4 GHSA-3hw7-qj9h-r835
Go github.com/gardener/gardener >= 1.117.0, < 1.117.5 1.117.5 GHSA-3hw7-qj9h-r835
Go github.com/gardener/gardener >= 1.118.0, < 1.118.2 1.118.2 GHSA-3hw7-qj9h-r835
Go github.com/gardener/gardener < 1.116.4 · >= 1.117.0, < 1.117.5 · >= 1.118.0, < 1.118.2 1.116.4, 1.117.5, 1.118.2 GO-2025-3696

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