kubernetes/ingress-nginx · Security
ingress-nginx vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-2pf9-vr92-6h3v
- CVE ID
- CVE-2026-24514
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 6.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 6.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx where the validating admission controller feature is subject to a denial of service condition. By sending large requests to the validating admission controller, an attacker can cause memory consumption, which may result in the ingress-nginx controller pod being killed or the node running out of memory.
CWEs
- CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling