CVE-2025-61916: Clouddriver artifacts Spinnaker Vulnerable To SSRF Due Vulnerability

HIGH
Advisory Identifier: GHSA-vrjc-q2fh-6x9h
CVSS 7.9
CWE-20 CWE-523 CWE-918
Published
Advisory Summary

CVE-2025-61916 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.9) spinnaker vulnerable to ssrf due vulnerability (CWE-20: Improper Input Validation) affecting Clouddriver artifacts libraries in the Maven ecosystem. The issue involves spinnaker vulnerable to ssrf due to improper restrictions on http from user input. Remediation is available by upgrading affected packages to version 2025.1.6, 2025.2.3.

CVE-2025-61916 at a Glance

CVE Identifier CVE-2025-61916
GHSA Identifier GHSA-vrjc-q2fh-6x9h
Severity HIGH
CVSS v3.1 Base Score 7.9
CWE Classification CWE-20: Improper Input Validation
Affected Product Clouddriver artifacts
Package Ecosystem Maven
Published Date
Last Updated

Security Impact

CVSS: 7.9

The security impact metrics below are parsed directly from the CVSS v3.1 vector string (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:L).

Attack Vector Local (AV:L)
Attack Complexity Low (AC:L)
Privileges Required Low (PR:L)
User Interaction None (UI:N)
Scope Changed (S:C)
Confidentiality High (C:H)
Integrity Low (I:L)
Availability Low (A:L)

How to Fix CVE-2025-61916

To remediate this vulnerability, upgrade all affected Clouddriver artifacts dependencies to a patched release. Both direct and transitive dependencies should be checked, as frameworks or security libraries may pull in vulnerable versions transitively.

io.spinnaker.clouddriver:clouddriver-artifacts fixed: 2025.1.6
<dependency>
    <groupId>io.spinnaker.clouddriver</groupId>
    <artifactId>clouddriver-artifacts</artifactId>
    <version>2025.1.6</version>
</dependency>
io.spinnaker.clouddriver:clouddriver-artifacts fixed: 2025.2.3
<dependency>
    <groupId>io.spinnaker.clouddriver</groupId>
    <artifactId>clouddriver-artifacts</artifactId>
    <version>2025.2.3</version>
</dependency>
Verify Direct and Transitive Dependencies

Run the following command in your project directory to verify that all resolved dependencies use the patched release:

mvn dependency:tree -Dincludes=io.spinnaker.clouddriver

How to Check if You Are Affected

To determine whether your Java application is affected by CVE-2025-61916, inspect your build dependencies using the Maven Dependency Plugin:

mvn dependency:tree -Dincludes=io.spinnaker.clouddriver

Analyze the terminal output to locate any version of Clouddriver artifacts in your dependency tree. If any resolved version matches the vulnerable ranges listed in the table below (for example, versions earlier than 2025.1.6), your application is affected.

Note: The mvn dependency:tree -Dincludes=io.spinnaker.clouddriver command inspects the resolved dependency graph declared in your project's POM files; it does not perform automated security scanning or inspect runtime dynamic classpaths. Always verify runtime container classpaths and shaded JARs.

Technical Details

Vulnerability Mechanism & Technical Analysis

This vulnerability is classified under CWE-20: Improper Input Validation, where the product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly. In Clouddriver artifacts, software state validation or input boundaries are circumvented during processing. Review the official source advisory statement below for specific affected components, classes, and reproduction details.

Source Advisory Statement

### Impact The primary impact is allowing users to fetch data from a remote URL. This data can be then injected into Spinnaker pipelines via helm or other methods to extract things LIKE idmsv1 authentication data. This ALSO includes calling INTERNAL Spinnaker API's via a get and similar endpoints. Further, depending upon the artifact configuration, auth data may be exposed to arbitrary endpoints (e.g. GitHub auth headers) leading to credentials exposure. To trigger this, a Spinnaker installation MUST have: * An artifact enabled that allows user input. This includes GitHub file artifacts, BitBucket, GitLab, HTTP artifacts and similar artifact providers. JUST enabling the http artifact provider will add a "no-auth" http provider that could be used to extract link local data (e.g. AWS Metadata information). * A system that can consume the output of these artifacts. E.g. Rosco helm can use this to fetch values data. K8s account manifests if the API returns JSON can be used to inject that data into the pipeline itself though the pipeline would fail. To note, due to the way the URLs are viable to be injected, CERTAIN systems can be used to provide DOS attacks on Spinnaker itself. These would NOT compromise the system per se, given restarts and timeout configuration, but could lead to internal attacks by a Spinnaker user against Spinnaker services. An example is that an artifact fetch reference could return an infinite response data feed or similar that can act as a DOS attack. It's recommended to set strong limits on the various http limits AND artifact URLs to known valid URLs. ### Patches Fixed in clouddriver versiosn 2025.2.3, 2025.1.5, 2025.0.9. Impacts all prior Spinnaker releases. ### Workarounds Disable HTTP account types that allow user input of a given URL. This is probably not feasible in MOST cases. Git, Docker and other artifact account types with explicit URL configurations bypass this limitation and should be safe as they limit artifact URL loading. Alternatively using one of the various vendors which provide OPA policies to restrict pipelines from accessing or saving a pipeline with invalid URLs.

CVE-2025-61916 Affected Clouddriver artifacts Versions

2 component(s)
Fixed Versions:
2025.1.62025.2.3
Product / Package Ecosystem Affected Versions Fixed Version
io.spinnaker.clouddriver:clouddriver-artifacts
Maven
< 2025.1.6
2025.1.6
io.spinnaker.clouddriver:clouddriver-artifacts
Maven
≥ 2025.2.0
< 2025.2.3
2025.2.3

References

Frequently Asked Questions

What is CVE-2025-61916?
CVE-2025-61916 is a security vulnerability in Clouddriver artifacts involving Spinnaker vulnerable to SSRF due to improper restrictions on http from user input under CWE-20: Improper Input Validation.
Which Clouddriver artifacts versions are affected?
Affected versions include releases prior to 2025.1.6, 2025.2.3 across affected packages: io.spinnaker.clouddriver:clouddriver-artifacts.
What version fixes CVE-2025-61916?
Upgrading to 2025.1.6, 2025.2.3 (or the latest patched release for your respective branch) resolves the vulnerability.
Is clouddriver-artifacts affected?
Yes, io.spinnaker.clouddriver:clouddriver-artifacts is affected in releases prior to 2025.1.6, 2025.2.3. Upgrade your dependency to 2025.1.6, 2025.2.3 or later.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2025-61916?
CVE-2025-61916 has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.9 (HIGH) with vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:L.
What CWE is associated with CVE-2025-61916?
CVE-2025-61916 is classified under CWE-20: Improper Input Validation (The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly.).
How can I check Maven dependencies for CVE-2025-61916?
Run the dependency tree command: 'mvn dependency:tree -Dincludes=io.spinnaker.clouddriver'. This command lists direct and transitive dependencies in your build configuration so you can verify if a vulnerable version is resolved.
Machine-readable OSV JSON OSV v1.5 Schema
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