CVE-2026-24513 LOW

CVE-2026-24513: ingress-nginx auth-url protection bypass

Vendor Kubernetes
Product ingress-nginx
Weakness CWE-754
Published February 3, 2026
Last update February 18, 2026

CVSS base score

3.1/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity High
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Confidentiality Low
Integrity None

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

Description

A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx where the protection afforded by the `auth-url` Ingress annotation may not be effective in the presence of a specific misconfiguration. If the ingress-nginx controller is configured with a default custom-errors configuration that includes HTTP errors 401 or 403, and if the configured default custom-errors backend is defective and fails to respect the X-Code HTTP header, then an Ingress with the `auth-url` annotation may be accessed even when authentication fails. Note that the built-in custom-errors backend works correctly. To trigger this issue requires an administrator to specifically configure ingress-nginx with a broken external component.

Key dates

Disclosure timeline

February 3, 2026 CVE published
February 18, 2026 Record updated