7.5

CVE-2025-59358: Denial of Service via Unauthorized Access to Chaos Mesh debugging server

Analyzed
AliasesGHSA-2gg8-85m5-8r2pGO-2025-3951
Published 15-09-2025Last modified 15-09-2025

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-59358 is a high (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability in chaos-mesh chaos_mesh. EPSS estimates a 0.81% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 57% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Priority
Prioritisepublic exploit

Public exploit (reference, Date unknown)

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.81%
0%100%
Low · +0.04 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits1reference

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 3 · Related 3

Timeline

  1. 15-09-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 15-09-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.81%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

57%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

Increase +0.04 pp

From 0.78% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

1 found
  • referenceUnverified

    Exploit Reference (jfrog.com)

    Maturity: unknown

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Chaos-mesh1 product
Github.com/chaos-mesh1 product
  • chaos-mesh< 2.7.3 | All versions (No fix recorded)

2 vendors · 2 products

References

6 links