CVE-2021-25745 HIGH

CVE-2021-25745: Ingress-nginx path can be pointed to service account token file

Vendor Kubernetes
Product Kubernetes ingress-nginx
Weakness CWE-20 · Input validation
Published May 6, 2022
Last update September 16, 2024

CVSS base score

7.6/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Confidentiality High
Integrity Low

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L

What the vulnerability does

Description

A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx where a user that can create or update ingress objects can use the spec.rules[].http.paths[].path field of an Ingress object (in the networking.k8s.io or extensions API group) to obtain the credentials of the ingress-nginx controller. In the default configuration, that credential has access to all secrets in the cluster.

Key dates

Disclosure timeline

May 6, 2022 CVE published
September 16, 2024 Record updated