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GHSA-xwgg-m7fx-83wx

Gardener External DNS Management allows malicious google credential in DNS secret to lead to privilege escalation

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Critical CVE-2025-47282

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed 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 - &gt;= 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

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