CVE-2025-59358

HIGH7.5EPSS 0.50%

Chaos Mesh's Chaos Controller Manager is Missing Authentication for Critical Function

Published: 9/15/2025Modified: 9/17/2025

Also known as:GHSA-2gg8-85m5-8r2pGO-2025-3951

Description

The Chaos Controller Manager in Chaos Mesh exposes a GraphQL debugging server without authentication to the entire Kubernetes cluster, which provides an API to kill arbitrary processes in any Kubernetes pod, leading to cluster-wide denial of service.

Affected packages (2)

Go/github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-meshfrom 0, < 2.7.3
Go/github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-meshfrom 0

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	HIGH7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References (6)

ADVISORYhttps://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2gg8-85m5-8r2p
ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-59358
PATCHhttps://github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh
WEBhttps://github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh/commit/67281c36f8068bf103149318cd0a466417213a28
WEBhttps://github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh/pull/4702
WEBhttps://jfrog.com/blog/chaotic-deputy-critical-vulnerabilities-in-chaos-mesh-lead-to-kubernetes-cluster-takeover