CVE-2026-24514 MEDIUM

CVE-2026-24514: ingress-nginx Admission Controller denial of service

Vendor Kubernetes
Product ingress-nginx
Weakness CWE-770 · Uncontrolled resource consumption
Published February 3, 2026
Last update February 18, 2026

CVSS base score

6.5/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity None

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

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.

Key dates

Disclosure timeline

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