CVE-2025-59823 (GCVE-0-2025-59823)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-25 14:17 – Updated: 2025-09-29 14:39
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Gardener providers vulnerable to code injection when Terraformer is used for infrastructure provisioning
Summary
Project Gardener implements the automated management and operation of Kubernetes clusters as a service. Code injection may be possible in Gardener Extensions for AWS providers prior to version 1.64.0, Azure providers prior to version 1.55.0, OpenStack providers prior to version 1.49.0, and GCP providers prior to version 1.46.0. This vulnerability could allow a user with administrative privileges for a Gardener project to obtain control over the seed cluster where the shoot cluster is managed. This affects all Gardener installations where Terraformer is used/can be enabled for infrastructure provisioning with any of the affected components. This issue has been patched in Gardener Extensions for AWS providers version 1.64.0, Azure providers version 1.55.0, OpenStack providers version 1.49.0, and GCP providers version 1.46.0.
Severity
9.9 (Critical)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-09-25 18:54 UTC
CWE
- CWE-94 - Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
Assigner
References
5 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/gardener/gardener-extension-pr… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/gardener/gardener-extension-pr… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/gardener/gardener-extension-pr… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/gardener/gardener-extension-pr… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/gardener/gardener-extension-pr… | x_refsource_MISC |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| gardener | gardener-extension-provider-aws |
Affected:
< 1.64.0
Affected: < 1.55.0 Affected: < 1.49.0 Affected: < 1.46.0 |
guessed |
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