GHSA-2gcv-3qpf-c5qr

Chaos Controller Manager is vulnerable to OS command injection

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Critical CVE-2025-59361

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
Go	github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh	< 2.7.3	2.7.3

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

The cleanIptables mutation in Chaos Controller Manager is vulnerable to OS command injection. In conjunction with CVE-2025-59358, this allows unauthenticated in-cluster attackers to perform remote code execution across the cluster.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-59361 advisory
https://github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh/pull/4702 web
https://github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh/commit/67281c36f8068bf103149318cd0a466417213a28 web
https://github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh package
https://jfrog.com/blog/chaotic-deputy-critical-vulnerabilities-in-chaos-mesh-lead-to-kubernetes-cluster-takeover web