GHSA-2pf9-vr92-6h3vMediumCVSS 6.5

ingress-nginx vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Published
February 4, 2026
Last Modified
February 4, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 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.

🎯 Affected products2

  • go/k8s.io/ingress-nginx:< 1.13.7
  • go/k8s.io/ingress-nginx:>= 1.14.0, < 1.14.3

🔗 References (3)