CVE-2025-47282 – github.com/gardener/external-dns-management

Package

Manager: go
Name: github.com/gardener/external-dns-management
Vulnerable Version: >=0 <0.23.6

Severity

Level: Critical

CVSS v3.1: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H

EPSS: 0.00139 pctl0.34542

Details

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

Metadata

Created: 2025-05-19T19:12:48Z
Modified: 2025-05-19T19:12:48Z
Source: https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2025/05/GHSA-xwgg-m7fx-83wx/GHSA-xwgg-m7fx-83wx.json
CWE IDs: ["CWE-20", "CWE-269"]
Alternative ID: GHSA-xwgg-m7fx-83wx
Finding: F184
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