CVE-2025-59358: Denial of Service via Unauthorized Access to Chaos Mesh debugging server
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.
Public exploit (reference, Date unknown)
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 3 · Related 3Timeline
- 15-09-2025PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 15-09-2025Last 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- OSV · GoEcosystem advisory · calculated7.5HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVDNIST7.5HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.
Not in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
1 foundExploit Reference (jfrog.com)
Maturity: unknown
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Chaos-mesh1 product
- chaos_mesh< 2.7.3
Github.com/chaos-mesh1 product
- chaos-mesh< 2.7.3 | All versions (No fix recorded)
2 vendors · 2 products