CVE-2021-25742 (GCVE-0-2021-25742)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-10-29 04:05 – Updated: 2024-09-16 23:06
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Title
Ingress-nginx custom snippets allows retrieval of ingress-nginx serviceaccount token and secrets across all namespaces
Summary
A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx where a user that can create or update ingress objects can use the custom snippets feature to obtain all secrets in the cluster.
Severity
7.6 (High)
CWE
- CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation
Assigner
References
3 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://groups.google.com/g/kubernetes-security-a… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/issues/7837 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-2021120… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kubernetes | Kubernetes ingress-nginx |
Affected:
unspecified , ≤ 0.49.0
(custom)
Unknown: next of 0.49.0 , < unspecified (custom) Affected: unspecified , ≤ 1.0.0 (custom) Unknown: next of 1.0.0 , < unspecified (custom) |
guessed |
Date Public
2021-10-21 00:00
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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