CVE-2025-59823

Gardener providers vulnerable to code injection when Terraformer is used for infrastructure provisioning

State: Published
Severity: 9.9 Critical
Published: Sep 25, 2025
Updated: Sep 29, 2025
Reserved: Sep 22, 2025

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.0	9.9 Critical	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
gardener-extension-provider-awsgardener	< 1.64.0Affected < 1.55.0Affected < 1.49.0Affected < 1.46.0Affected

References

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