CVE-2026-24514
ingress-nginx Admission Controller denial of service
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 6.5 Medium
- Published
- Feb 3, 2026
- Updated
- Feb 18, 2026
- Reserved
- Jan 23, 2026
Description
A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx where the validating admission controller feature is subject to a denial of service condition. By sending large requests to the validating admission controller, an attacker can cause memory consumption, which may result in the ingress-nginx controller pod being killed or the node running out of memory.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 6.5 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | kubernetes |
Weaknesses
- CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
ingress-nginxKubernetes |
|
References
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