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GHSA-863X-868H-968X

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2023-05-24 18:30 – Updated: 2023-06-02 23:35

Summary

Ingress-nginx `path` sanitization can be bypassed with newline character

Details

A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx where a user that can create or update ingress objects can use a newline character to bypass the sanitization of 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.

Severity

6.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

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  "modified": "2023-06-02T23:35:19Z",
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CVE-2021-25748 (GCVE-0-2021-25748)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-05-24 00:00 – Updated: 2025-01-16 21:23

Title

Ingress-nginx `path` sanitization can be bypassed with newline character

Summary

A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx where a user that can create or update ingress objects can use a newline character to bypass the sanitization of 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.

Severity

7.6 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-01-16 21:23 UTC

CWE

CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation

Assigner

kubernetes mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://groups.google.com/g/kubernetes-security-a…
https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/issues/8686

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Kubernetes	Kubernetes ingress-nginx	Affected: unspecified , < 1.2.1 (custom)

Date Public

2022-06-10 00:00

Credits

Gafnit Amiga

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