CVE-2025-47284: Gardener

Critical severity, CVSS 9.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Gardener implements the automated management and operation of Kubernetes clusters as a service. A security vulnerability was discovered in the `gardenlet` component of Gardener prior to versions 1.116.4, 1.117.5, 1.118.2, and 1.119.0. It could allow a user with administrative privileges for a Gardener project to obtain control over the seed cluster(s) where their shoot clusters are managed. This CVE affects all Gardener installations where gardener/gardener-extension-provider-gcp is in use. Versions 1.116.4, 1.117.5, 1.118.2, and 1.119.0 fix the issue.

Affected products

• Gardener Gardener: before 1.116.4 (fixed in 1.116.4); from 1.117.0, before 1.117.5 (fixed in 1.117.5); from 1.118.0, before 1.118.2 (fixed in 1.118.2)

Published 2025-05-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.