CVE-2026-24514 (GCVE-0-2026-24514)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-02-03 22:17 – Updated: 2026-02-03 22:17
VLAI?
Title
ingress-nginx Admission Controller denial of service
Summary
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.
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium)
CWE
- CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Assigner
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kubernetes | ingress-nginx |
Affected:
0 , < 1.13.7
(semver)
Affected: 0 , < 1.14.2 (semver) |
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Sightings
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|---|
Nomenclature
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- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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