CVE-2025-48056: Hubble CLI vulnerable to character injection
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.
Classification
CVE ID: CVE-2025-48056
CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Problem Types
CWE-74: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')Affected Products
Vendor: cilium
Product: hubble
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
EPSS Score: 0.04% (probability of being exploited)
EPSS Percentile: 11.59% (scored less or equal to compared to others)
EPSS Date: 2025-05-30 (when was this score calculated)
References
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-48056https://github.com/cilium/hubble/security/advisories/GHSA-274q-79q9-52j7
https://github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/37401