{"id":"CVE-2025-47284","aliases":["GHSA-9x73-87fh-54w9","GO-2025-3698"],"url":"https://o3.security/vulnerability/CVE-2025-47284","summary":"Gardener vulnerable to metadata injection for a project secret that can lead to privilege escalation","details":"A security vulnerability was discovered in the `gardenlet` component of Gardener. 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.\n\n### Am I Vulnerable?\n\nThis CVE affects all Gardener installations where https://github.com/gardener/gardener-extension-provider-gcp is in use.\n\n### Affected Components\n\n- `gardener/gardener` (`gardenlet`)\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.","published":"2025-05-19T18:52:57.520Z","modified":"2026-08-12T03:51:15.116276323Z","cvss":{"score":9.9,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"epss":null,"cisaKev":null,"exploitsKnown":0,"affectedPackages":[{"ecosystem":"Go","name":"github.com/gardener/gardener","fixedVersion":"1.116.4"},{"ecosystem":"Go","name":"github.com/gardener/gardener","fixedVersion":"1.117.5"},{"ecosystem":"Go","name":"github.com/gardener/gardener","fixedVersion":"1.118.2"}],"fix":null,"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/47xxx/CVE-2025-47284.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/gardener/gardener/security/advisories/GHSA-9x73-87fh-54w9"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-47284"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/gardener/gardener"}],"provenance":{"sources":["OSV.dev","FIRST.org (EPSS)"],"lastVerified":"2026-08-12T03:51:15.116276323Z"}}