CVE-2025-1974
ingress-nginx admission controller RCE escalation
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 9.8 Critical
- Published
- Mar 24, 2025
- Updated
- Feb 26, 2026
- Reserved
- Mar 4, 2025
Description
A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes where under certain conditions, an unauthenticated attacker with access to the pod network can achieve arbitrary code execution in the context of the ingress-nginx controller. This can lead to disclosure of Secrets accessible to the controller. (Note that in the default installation, the controller can access all Secrets cluster-wide.)
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 9.8 Critical | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | kubernetes |
Weaknesses
- CWE-653 Improper Isolation or Compartmentalization
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
ingress-nginxkubernetes |
|
References
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