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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.3

CVE-2025-48056 json

Hubble CLI vulnerable to character injection

published 2025-05-20 17 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-274q-79q9-52j7 , GO-2025-3700 , EUVD-2025-15956

cvss
5.3
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 21%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/cilium/hubble 1.17.2
  • govulncheck-vulndb openSUSE Tumbleweed 0.0.20250523T151856-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2025:15159-1

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
17 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.29% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 21% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
GitHub 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/cilium/hubble
<1.17.2
1.17.2

Affected products

  • cilium hubble

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-74 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component

References

Sources

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