cve-2021-25748
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-05-24 00:00
Modified
2025-01-16 21:23
Severity ?
7.6 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L
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.
References
jordan@liggitt.nethttps://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/issues/8686Issue Tracking, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
jordan@liggitt.nethttps://groups.google.com/g/kubernetes-security-announce/c/avaRYa9c7I8Mailing List, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/issues/8686Issue Tracking, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://groups.google.com/g/kubernetes-security-announce/c/avaRYa9c7I8Mailing List, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Kubernetes Kubernetes ingress-nginx Version: unspecified   < 1.2.1
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