GHSA-2gg8-85m5-8r2p

Chaos Mesh's Chaos Controller Manager is Missing Authentication for Critical Function

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2025-59358

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 Chaos Controller Manager in Chaos Mesh exposes a GraphQL debugging server without authentication to the entire Kubernetes cluster, which provides an API to kill arbitrary processes in any Kubernetes pod, leading to cluster-wide denial of service.

References

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

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-59358 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