Gardener up to 1.116.3/1.117.4/1.118.1 control sequence

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as very critical has been found in Gardener up to 1.116.3/1.117.4/1.118.1. The affected element is an unknown function. The manipulation leads to control sequence. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2025-47284. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Gardener up to 1.116.3/1.117.4/1.118.1 and classified as very critical. This issue affects some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a control sequence vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-150. The product receives input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could be interpreted as escape, meta, or control character sequences when they are sent to a downstream component. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Gardener implements the automated management and operation of Kubernetes clusters as a service. A security vulnerability was discovered in the `gardenlet` component of Gardener prior to versions 1.116.4, 1.117.5, 1.118.2, and 1.119.0. It 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 where gardener/gardener-extension-provider-gcp is in use. Versions 1.116.4, 1.117.5, 1.118.2, and 1.119.0 fix the issue.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-47284 since 05/05/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 09/04/2025).

Upgrading to version 1.116.4, 1.117.5 or 1.118.2 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Name

• Gardener

Version

• 1.116.0
• 1.116.1
• 1.116.2
• 1.116.3
• 1.117.0
• 1.117.1
• 1.117.2
• 1.117.3
• 1.117.4
• 1.118.0
• 1.118.1

Website

• Product: https://github.com/gardener/gardener/

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