CVE-2025-48056
MEDIUMHubble < 1.17.2 - Terminal Output Manipulation via Malicious Control Characters
Title source: llmDescription
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
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/cilium/hubble/security/advisories/GHSA-274q-79q9-52j7
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