Chaotic Deputy: Chaos Mesh Critical GraphQL Flaws — Vulnerability Analysis Report By CyberDudeBivash — Kubernetes & Cloud-Native Threat Intelligence
cyberdudebivash.com | cyberbivash.blogspot.com | cryptobivash.code.blog Executive Summary Researchers at JFrog Security recently discovered a set of critical vulnerabilities in Chaos Mesh , a popular chaos-engineering platform for Kubernetes. The vulnerabilities (collectively dubbed Chaotic Deputy ) include authentication bypass and OS command injection flaws in the GraphQL debugging interface of Chaos Mesh’s Controller Manager. research.jfrog.com +3 JFrog +3 The Hacker News +3 These flaws allow an adversary with only in-cluster network access (e.g., a compromised pod) to execute arbitrary commands or kill processes across pods—including high-privilege or control plane pods—and potentially take over the entire Kubernetes cluster. Users of Chaos Mesh versions earlier than 2.7.3 are affected. JFrog +2 The Hacker News +2 This report from CyberDudeBivash breaks down how these vulnerabilities work, the risk to cloud-native infrastructures, detection methods, patching gui...