CVE-2024-7646

Published: Aug 16, 2024Modified: Jun 17, 2026Deferred

8.8

Vector

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

Exploitability: 2.8 / Impact: 5.9

Source: jordan@liggitt.net (Secondary)

Description

A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx where an actor with permission to create Ingress objects (in the `networking.k8s.io` or `extensions` API group) can bypass annotation validation to inject arbitrary commands and obtain the credentials of the ingress-nginx controller. In the default configuration, that credential has access to all secrets in the cluster.

Related CWEs

CWE-20

Improper Input Validation

The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly.

References (5)

https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/pull/11719

Source: jordan@liggitt.net

https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/pull/11721

Source: jordan@liggitt.net

https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/126744

Source: jordan@liggitt.net

https://groups.google.com/g/kubernetes-security-announce/c/a1__cKjWkfA

Source: jordan@liggitt.net

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/08/16/5

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

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