Description
A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx where a combination of Ingress annotations 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.)
Problem types
CWE-20 Improper Input Validation
Product status
Any version before 1.13.9
Any version before 1.14.5
Any version before 1.15.1
Credits
wooseokdotkim
References
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/03/19/9
github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/137893