kubernetes/ingress-nginx · Security
ingress-nginx controller - auth secret file path traversal vulnerability
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-242m-6h72-7hgp
- CVE ID
- CVE-2025-24513
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 4.8 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
- CVSS v3
- 4.8 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
Description
A security issue was discovered in 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.
CWEs
- CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation
- CWE-22 · Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-24513 ↗
- https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/131005 ↗
- https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/releases/tag/controller-v1.11.5 ↗
- https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/releases/tag/controller-v1.12.1 ↗
- https://groups.google.com/g/kubernetes-security-announce/c/2qa9DFtN0cQ ↗
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250328-0008 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-242m-6h72-7hgp ↗