CVE-2025-59359

criticalpriority · track · 11EPSS 0.030 · 87 %ileexploit · PoCEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

1 exploit · PoC

Likely / severe?

3.03% (87th) EPSS

CVSS 9.8 · critical

Is it mine?

3 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

The cleanTcs mutation in Chaos Controller Manager is vulnerable to OS command injection. In conjunction with CVE-2025-59358, this allows unauthenticated in-cluster attackers to perform remote code execution across the cluster.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

9.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · reefs@jfrog.comexploitability 3.9 · impact 5.9

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.19.3criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Psecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical Impact: totalcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-78USCWE-78US

exploits (1)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

mrk336/Cluster-Chaos-Exploiting-CVE-2025-59359-for-Kubernetes-TakeoverA hands-on forensic walkthrough of CVE-2025-59359, a critical OS command injection flaw in Chaos-Mesh. Learn how attackers hijack Kubernetes clusters via GraphQL mutations, and how to detect, analyze, and report the breach using ELK.PoC · poc_in_github

affected products (3)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

chaos-mesh chaos mesh< 2.7.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:chaos-mesh:chaos_mesh:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Go github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-meshall versionsosvUSpkg:golang/github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh
Go github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh< 2.7.3osvUSpkg:golang/github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-369h-6j28-wwcgChaos Controller Manager is vulnerable to OS command injection2025-09-15ghsa · osvUS
The cleanTcs mutation in Chaos Controller Manager is vulnerable to OS command injection. In conjunction with CVE-2025-59358, this allows unauthenticated in-cluster attackers to perform remote code execution across the cluster.
GO-2025-3952Chaos Controller Manager is vulnerable to OS command injection in github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh2025-09-17vendor · osvUS
Chaos Controller Manager is vulnerable to OS command injection in github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh. NOTE: The source advisory for this report contains additional versions that could not be automatically mapped to standard Go module versions. (If this is causing false-positive reports from vulnerability scanners, please suggest an edit to the report.) The additional affected modules and versions are: github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh before v2.7.3.

also known as (5)

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sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd osv nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2025-09-15modified 2026-06-17

references (6)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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