GHSA-xwgg-m7fx-83wx
Gardener External DNS Management allows malicious google credential in DNS secret to lead to privilege escalation
Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Go | github.com/gardener/external-dns-management | < 0.23.6 | 0.23.6 |
| Go | github.com/gardener/gardener-extension-shoot-dns-service | <= 1.6.0 | no fix listed |
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
A security vulnerability was discovered in Gardener that could allow a user with administrative privileges for a Gardener project or a user with administrative privileges for a shoot cluster, including administrative privileges for a single namespace of the shoot cluster, to obtain control over the seed cluster where the shoot cluster is managed.
### Am I Vulnerable?
This CVE affects all Gardener installations no matter of the public cloud provider(s) used for the seed clusters/shoot clusters.
### Affected Components
- `gardener/external-dns-management`
### Affected Versions
- < 0.23.6
### Fixed Versions
- >= 0.23.6
### Important
The `external-dns-management` component may also be deployed on the seeds by the https://github.com/gardener/gardener-extension-shoot-dns-service extension when the extension is enabled. In this case, all versions of the `shoot-dns-service` extension `<= v1.60.0` are affected by this vulnerability.
### How do I mitigate this vulnerability?
Update to a fixed version.
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.