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.
Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2025-15956 Character injection in Hubble CLI
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-274q-79q9-52j7 Character injection in Hubble CLI
Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.


Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

History

Tue, 20 May 2025 21:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Tue, 20 May 2025 20:00:00 +0000

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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.
Title Hubble CLI vulnerable to character injection
Weaknesses CWE-74
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2025-05-20T20:15:17.170Z

Reserved: 2025-05-15T16:06:40.940Z

Link: CVE-2025-48056

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-05-20T20:10:06.890Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-05-20T20:15:42.790

Modified: 2025-05-21T20:24:58.133

Link: CVE-2025-48056

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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