CVE-2025-48056 (GCVE-0-2025-48056)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-20 19:55 – Updated: 2025-05-20 20:15
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Hubble CLI vulnerable to character injection
Summary
Hubble is a fully distributed networking and security observability platform for cloud native workloads. Prior to version 1.17.2, a network attacker could inject malicious control characters into Hubble CLI terminal output, potentially leading to loss of integrity and manipulation of the output. This could be leveraged to conceal log entries, rewrite output, or even make the terminal temporarily unusable. Exploitation of this attack would require the victim to be monitoring Kafka traffic using Layer 7 Protocol Visibility at the time of the attack. The issue is patched in Hubble CLI v1.17.2. Hubble CLI users who are unable to upgrade can direct their Hubble flows to a log file and inspect the output within a text editor.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-05-20 20:09 UTC
CWE
- CWE-74 - Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')
Assigner
References
2 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/cilium/hubble/security/advisor… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37401 | x_refsource_MISC |
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Nomenclature
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