{
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "id": "GHSA-3hw7-qj9h-r835",
  "modified": "2026-02-06T18:56:41Z",
  "published": "2025-05-19T19:15:03Z",
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2025-47283"
  ],
  "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.",
  "severity": [
    {
      "type": "CVSS_V3",
      "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H"
    }
  ],
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Go",
        "name": "github.com/gardener/gardener"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1.116.4"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Go",
        "name": "github.com/gardener/gardener"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "1.117.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1.117.5"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Go",
        "name": "github.com/gardener/gardener"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "1.118.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1.118.2"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "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"
    ],
    "severity": "CRITICAL",
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2025-05-19T19:15:03Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2025-05-19T19:15:51Z"
  }
}