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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2019-12494

In Gardener before 0.20.0, incorrect access control in seed clusters allows information disclosure by sending HTTP GET requests from one's own shoot clusters to foreign shoot clusters. This occurs because traffic from shoot to seed via the VPN endpoint is not blocked.

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CVE-2019-12494
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31 Oct 2026, 10:45 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2019-12494

core-osv · Original source

Published 5 Jun 2019, 19:29 UTC

In Gardener before 0.20.0, incorrect access control in seed clusters allows information disclosure by sending HTTP GET requests from one's own shoot clusters to foreign shoot clusters. This occurs because traffic from shoot to seed via the VPN endpoint is not blocked.

osv:CVE-2019-12494
Complete source record
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  "id": "4927aaa9cccd73ec1296425a58a93ed4812594efb73234699494a4a6d39f4aa1",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-12494",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2019-12494",
    "summary": "In Gardener before 0.20.0, incorrect access control in seed clusters allows information disclosure by sending HTTP GET requests from one's own shoot clusters to foreign shoot clusters. This occurs because traffic from shoot to seed via the VPN endpoint is not blocked.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2019-12494",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2019-12494",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2019-12494"
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      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
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            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/gardener/gardener",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "93b715ee5b3e6eca8c2b46a7431b4cb3bbc75980"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gardener:gardener:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "0.20.0"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
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            "0.18.0",
            "0.17.0",
            "0.16.0",
            "0.15.0",
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            "0.8.0",
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            "0.5.0",
            "0.4.0",
            "0.3.0",
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          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-12494.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:51:36.588841656Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/gardener/pH6dNIEhv-A",
        "https://github.com/gardener/vpn/issues/40",
        "https://github.com/gardener/gardener/pull/874"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2019-12494",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 382638,
  "published_at": "2019-06-05T19:29:00.233+00:00"
}