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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD8.8 High

CVE-2025-15566

ingress-nginx auth-proxy-set-headers nginx configuration injection

Description

A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx where the `nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/auth-proxy-set-headers` Ingress annotation can be used to inject configuration into nginx. This can lead to arbitrary code execution in the context of the ingress-nginx controller, and disclosure of Secrets accessible to the controller. (Note that in the default installation, the controller can access all Secrets cluster-wide.)

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Kubernetes ingress-nginx

Default version status: affected

  • 0 to < 1.12.5affected
  • 0 to < 1.13.1affected

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