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GHSA-2GG8-85M5-8R2P

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-09-15 12:31 – Updated: 2025-09-15 21:06

Summary

Chaos Mesh's Chaos Controller Manager is Missing Authentication for Critical Function

Details

The Chaos Controller Manager in Chaos Mesh exposes a GraphQL debugging server without authentication to the entire Kubernetes cluster, which provides an API to kill arbitrary processes in any Kubernetes pod, leading to cluster-wide denial of service.

Severity

7.5 (High)


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

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CVE-2025-59358 (GCVE-0-2025-59358)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-15 11:34 – Updated: 2025-09-15 11:57

Title

Denial of Service via Unauthorized Access to Chaos Mesh debugging server

Summary

Severity

7.5 (High)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-09-15 11:57 UTC

CWE

CWE-306 - Missing Authentication for Critical Function

Assigner

JFROG mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh/pull/4702
https://jfrog.com/blog/chaotic-deputy-critical-vu…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
		Affected: 0 , ≤ 2.7.2 (custom)

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