CVE-2025-24513 (GCVE-0-2025-24513)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-24 23:29 – Updated: 2025-11-03 21:12
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Title
ingress-nginx controller - auth secret file path traversal vulnerability
Summary
A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx where attacker-provided data are included in a filename by the ingress-nginx Admission Controller feature, resulting in directory traversal within the container. This could result in denial of service, or when combined with other vulnerabilities, limited disclosure of Secret objects from the cluster.
Severity ?
4.8 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
kubernetes ingress-nginx Affected: 0 , ≤ 1.11.4 (semver)
Affected: 1.12.0
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Credits
Nir Ohfeld Ronen Shustin
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