CVE-2025-1974 (GCVE-0-2025-1974)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-24 23:28 – Updated: 2026-02-26 19:09
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Title
ingress-nginx admission controller RCE escalation
Summary
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.)
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-653 - Improper Isolation or Compartmentalization
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Vendor Product Version
kubernetes ingress-nginx Affected: 0 , ≤ 1.11.4 (semver)
Affected: 1.12.0
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Date Public ?
2025-03-24 19:36
Credits
Nir Ohfeld Ronen Shustin Sagi Tzadik Hillai Ben Sasson
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