Gardener implements the automated management and operation of Kubernetes clusters as a service

Overview

Gardener implements the automated management and operation of Kubernetes clusters as a service. Prior to 1.142.6, 1.143.3, 1.144.2, and 1.145.0, the customverbauthorizer admission plugin's mustCheckProjectMembers manage-members check compares changes to User subjects but does not account for Group or ServiceAccount subjects in Project.spec.members. A project administrator who lacks manage-members permission can add arbitrary Group or ServiceAccount subjects, including the system:authenticated Group, and thereby grant broad project access. The resulting access can include Shoots, Secrets, and cloud provider credentials. This issue is fixed in versions 1.142.6, 1.143.3, 1.144.2, and 1.145.0.

Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.

Package advisory (CVE-2026-79767)

Affected packages:

• github.com/gardener/gardener < 1.142.6
• gardener/gardener >= 1.143.0, < 1.143.3
• gardener/gardener >= 1.144.0, < 1.144.2

Patched in:

• github.com/gardener/gardener 1.142.6
• gardener/gardener 1.143.3
• gardener/gardener 1.144.2

Source: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gfjv-gqf2-c888