Vulnerability GHSA-3hw7-qj9h-r835
Critical
CRITICAL RISK
CVSS Score: 9.9
Score Range: 9.0–10.0
Critical severity vulnerabilities (CVSS 9.0–10.0). These represent the highest impact issues.
1 year ago
May 19, 2025 at 07:15 PM UTC
Gardener allows bypassing project secret validation which can lead to privilege escalation
v0.32.0 - v1.116.3 and v1.117.0 - v1.117.4 and v1.118.0 - v1.118.1
v0.32.0 - v1.116.3 and v1.117.0 - v1.117.4 and v1.118.0 - v1.118.1
Summary
Gardener allows bypassing project secret validation which can lead to privilege escalation
Details
A security vulnerability was discovered in Gardener 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.
Am I Vulnerable?
This CVE affects all Gardener installations no matter of the public cloud provider(s) used for the seed clusters/shoot clusters.
Affected Components
gardener/gardener
Affected Versions
- < v1.116.4
- < v1.117.5
- < v1.118.2
- < v1.119.0
Fixed Versions
- >= v1.116.4
- >= v1.117.5
- >= v1.118.2
- >= v1.119.0
How do I mitigate this vulnerability?
Update to a fixed version.
Related Vulnerabilities
Other vulnerabilities affecting the same packages
Unknown
7 hours ago
Gardener: Authorization Bypass via Group Subject Injection in gardener/gardener
v0.32.0 - v1.152.0 GO-2026-6568
v0.32.0 - v1.152.0 GO-2026-6568
Medium Risk
9 days ago
Gardener: Authorization Bypass via Group Subject Injection
v0.32.0 - v1.142.5 GHSA-gfjv-gqf2-c888
v0.32.0 - v1.142.5 GHSA-gfjv-gqf2-c888
Unknown
1 year ago
Gardener allows bypassing project secret validation which can lead to privilege escalation in github.com/gardener/gardener
v0.32.0 - v1.116.3 GO-2025-3696
v0.32.0 - v1.116.3 GO-2025-3696
Unknown
1 year ago
Gardener allows metadata injection for a project secret which can lead to privilege escalation in github.com/gardener/gardener
v0.32.0 - v1.116.3 GO-2025-3698
v0.32.0 - v1.116.3 GO-2025-3698
Critical
1 year ago
Gardener allows metadata injection for a project secret which can lead to privilege escalation
v0.32.0 - v1.116.3 and v1.117.0 - v1.117.4 and v1.118.0 - v1.118.1 GHSA-9x73-87fh-54w9
v0.32.0 - v1.116.3 and v1.117.0 - v1.117.4 and v1.118.0 - v1.118.1 GHSA-9x73-87fh-54w9
Impacted packages
Timeline
Published
1 year ago
May 19, 2025 at 07:15 PM UTC
Last Modified
7 months ago
February 06, 2026 at 08:16 PM UTC