CVE-2025-59823
Gardener provider extensions vulnerable to code injection when Terraform is used for infrastructure provisioning
Severity by source
Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by GHSA.
Description
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.
Affected packages and fixed versions
| Source | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| go::GitHub Security Advisory Go | github.com/gardener/gardener-extension-provider-aws, github.com/gardener/gardener-extension-provider-azure, github.com/gardener/gardener-extension-provider-gcp and 1 more | 1.64.0 and 3 more |
Show all 4 entries from 1 source
| Source | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| go::GitHub Security Advisory Go | github.com/gardener/gardener-extension-provider-aws | 1.64.0 |
| go::GitHub Security Advisory Go | github.com/gardener/gardener-extension-provider-azure | 1.55.0 |
| go::GitHub Security Advisory Go | github.com/gardener/gardener-extension-provider-gcp | 1.46.0 |
| go::GitHub Security Advisory Go | github.com/gardener/gardener-extension-provider-openstack | 1.49.0 |
References
- https://github.com/gardener/gardener-extension-provider-aws
- https://github.com/gardener/gardener-extension-provider-aws/commit/cb5045fc146248296994804bbfe27bd896938bf2
- https://github.com/gardener/gardener-extension-provider-aws/releases/tag/v1.64.0
- https://github.com/gardener/gardener-extension-provider-aws/security/advisories/GHSA-227x-7mh8-3cf6
- https://github.com/gardener/gardener-extension-provider-azure/commit/4573a4404969f89781ed6cf72e90554bc6ae2020
- https://github.com/gardener/gardener-extension-provider-azure/releases/tag/v1.55.0
- https://github.com/gardener/gardener-extension-provider-gcp/commit/51111b4f60c33c60dfdf18b1fc50f7ec8d8f70ac
- https://github.com/gardener/gardener-extension-provider-gcp/releases/tag/v1.46.0