CVE-2021-25745
HIGH8.1EPSS 0.36%Improper Input Validation in k8s.io/ingress-nginx
Published: 5/7/2022Modified: 5/20/2026
Description
A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx where a user that can create or update ingress objects can use the spec.rules[].http.paths[].path field of an Ingress object (in the networking.k8s.io or extensions API group) to obtain the credentials of the ingress-nginx controller. In the default configuration, that credential has access to all secrets in the cluster.
Affected packages (1)
- Go/k8s.io/ingress-nginxfrom 0, < 1.2.0
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH8.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |