CVE-2025-47284: Gardener allows metadata injection for a project secret which can lead to privilege escalation

May 19, 2025

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.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-9x73-87fh-54w9
github.com/gardener/gardener
github.com/gardener/gardener/security/advisories/GHSA-9x73-87fh-54w9
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-47284

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