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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD9.8 Critical

CVE-2025-1974

ingress-nginx admission controller RCE escalation

Description

A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes where under certain conditions, an unauthenticated attacker with access to the pod network can achieve arbitrary code execution in the context of the ingress-nginx controller. This can lead to 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: unaffected

  • 0 to ≤ 1.11.4affected
  • 1.12.0affected

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