High
Security advisory
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.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2019-12494
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:45 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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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"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"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 382638,
"published_at": "2019-06-05T19:29:00.233+00:00"
}