CVE-2025-47284 is a critical security vulnerability in the gardenlet component of Gardener, an automated Kubernetes cluster management service, specifically impacting installations utilizing gardener/gardener-extension-provider-gcp. An authenticated attacker with administrative privileges within a Gardener project could exploit this to gain control over the underlying seed clusters managing their shoot clusters. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 9.9 (CRITICAL) due to its network-based attack vector, low attack complexity, and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 1.116.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gardener:gardener:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 1.117.0, < 1.117.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gardener:gardener:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 1.118.0, < 1.118.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gardener:gardener:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 1.0 Bluesky, 0.5 Mastodon, and 1.6 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.