CVE-2025-48056

MEDIUM

Hubble < 1.17.2 - Terminal Output Manipulation via Malicious Control Characters

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Issue Tracking x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37401

Scores

CVSS v3 5.3
EPSS 0.0025
EPSS Percentile 15.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-74
Status published
Products (2)
cilium/hubble 0 - 1.17.2Go
cilium/hubble < 1.17.2
Published May 20, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026