gardener gardenctl-v2 up to 2.11.x command injection

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in gardener gardenctl-v2 up to 2.11.x. This issue affects some unknown processing. Such manipulation leads to command injection. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2025-67508. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in gardener gardenctl-v2 up to 2.11.x. Affected by this issue is an unknown function. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a command injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-77. The product constructs all or part of a command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended command when it is sent to a downstream component. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

gardenctl is a command-line client for the Gardener which configures access to clusters and cloud provider CLI tools. When using non‑POSIX shells such as Fish and PowerShell, versions 2.11.0 and below of gardenctl allow an attacker with administrative privileges for a Gardener project to craft malicious credential values. The forged credential values are used in infrastructure Secret objects that break out of the intended string context when evaluated in Fish or PowerShell environments used by the Gardener service operators. This issue is fixed in version 2.12.0.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-67508 since 12/08/2025. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be launched remotely. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1202 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 2.12.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Vendor

• gardener

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• gardenctl-v2

Version

• 2.0
• 2.1
• 2.2
• 2.3
• 2.4
• 2.5
• 2.6
• 2.7
• 2.8
• 2.9
• 2.10
• 2.11

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• Product: https://github.com/gardener/gardenctl-v2/

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