CVE-2021-25746

high

Description

A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx where a user that can create or update ingress objects can use .metadata.annotations in 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.

References

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6575101

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220609-0006/

https://groups.google.com/g/kubernetes-security-announce/c/hv2-SfdqcfQ

https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/issues/8503

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2022-05-06

Updated: 2022-12-02

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

Severity: High