GHSA-fwwp-xcxw-39vqHighCVSS 8.8

ingress-nginx controller - configuration injection via unsanitized auth-url annotation

Published
March 25, 2025
Last Modified
February 4, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx where the auth-url Ingress annotation can be used to inject configuration into nginx. This can lead to arbitrary code execution in the context of the ingress-nginx controller, and disclosure of Secrets accessible to the controller. (Note that in the default installation, the controller can access all Secrets cluster-wide.)

🎯 Affected products2

  • go/k8s.io/ingress-nginx:< 1.11.5
  • go/k8s.io/ingress-nginx:>= 1.12.0-beta.0, < 1.12.1

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