{"schema_version":"1.7.3","id":"GHSA-3hw7-qj9h-r835","published":"2025-05-19T19:15:03Z","modified":"2026-02-06T20:16:27.773937Z","aliases":["CVE-2025-47283","GO-2025-3696"],"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.\n\n### Am I Vulnerable?\n\nThis CVE affects all Gardener installations no matter of the public cloud provider(s) used for the seed clusters/shoot clusters.\n\n### Affected Components\n\n- `gardener/gardener`\n\n### Affected Versions\n\n- < v1.116.4\n- < v1.117.5\n- < v1.118.2\n- < v1.119.0\n\n### Fixed Versions\n\n- &gt;= v1.116.4\n- &gt;= v1.117.5\n- &gt;= v1.118.2\n- &gt;= v1.119.0\n\n### How do I mitigate this vulnerability?\n\nUpdate to a fixed version.","affected":[{"package":{"name":"github.com/gardener/gardener","ecosystem":"Go","purl":"pkg:golang/github.com/gardener/gardener"},"ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.116.4"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2025/05/GHSA-3hw7-qj9h-r835/GHSA-3hw7-qj9h-r835.json"}},{"package":{"name":"github.com/gardener/gardener","ecosystem":"Go","purl":"pkg:golang/github.com/gardener/gardener"},"ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"1.117.0"},{"fixed":"1.117.5"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2025/05/GHSA-3hw7-qj9h-r835/GHSA-3hw7-qj9h-r835.json"}},{"package":{"name":"github.com/gardener/gardener","ecosystem":"Go","purl":"pkg:golang/github.com/gardener/gardener"},"ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"1.118.0"},{"fixed":"1.118.2"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2025/05/GHSA-3hw7-qj9h-r835/GHSA-3hw7-qj9h-r835.json"}}],"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/gardener/gardener/security/advisories/GHSA-3hw7-qj9h-r835"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-47283"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/gardener/gardener/commit/924b1575aae052bcda5a51fac8594d38fa3c41b0"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/gardener/gardener/commit/b89cf2cd5067e82f364063d5241af73650a6e11d"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/gardener/gardener/commit/bbd19b1dd3a31843d7b820172d37f75298dfaf8b"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/gardener/gardener/commit/cf4e9887d83902216b85609caf563f7a9dd2de00"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/gardener/gardener"}],"database_specific":{"cwe_ids":["CWE-20","CWE-269"],"github_reviewed":true,"github_reviewed_at":"2025-05-19T19:15:03Z","nvd_published_at":"2025-05-19T19:15:51Z","severity":"CRITICAL"},"severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}