CVE-2025-1974

critical

Description

A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes where under certain conditions, an unauthenticated attacker with access to the pod network can achieve arbitrary code execution in the context of the ingress-nginx controller. This can lead to disclosure of Secrets accessible to the controller. (Note that in the default installation, the controller can access all Secrets cluster-wide.)

From the Tenable Blog

CVE-2025-1097, CVE-2025-1098, CVE-2025-1974, CVE-2025-24513, CVE-2025-24514: Frequently Asked Questions About IngressNightmare

Published: 2025-03-25

Frequently asked questions about five vulnerabilities in the Ingress NGINX Controller for Kubernetes, collectively known as IngressNightmare.

References

https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/evooo1bot-linux-botnet-exploits-known.html

https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-25-100-05

https://www.securityweek.com/ingressnightmare-flaws-expose-many-kubernetes-clusters-to-remote-hacking/

https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/25/kubernetes_flaw_rce_risk/

https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/critical-ingressnightmare-vulns-kubernetes-environments

https://thehackernews.com/2025/03/critical-ingress-nginx-controller.html

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-1974

https://cloud.google.com/support/bulletins/index#gcp-2025-013

https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/AWS-2025-006/

https://www.tenable.com/blog/cve-2025-1974-frequently-asked-questions-about-ingressnightmare-kubernetes

https://github.com/vbrik/distro-package-cve-query

https://github.com/shunfeng8421/exploit-library

https://github.com/diedromeo/CVE-Labs-2025-2026

https://github.com/shunfeng8421/security-audit

https://github.com/baranchen/ingress-nginx

https://github.com/ChovTheHacker/EREBUS

https://github.com/hhdeptrai/cve_tool_backup

https://github.com/EvanThomasLuke/HACK-AGI-CONTAINERS

https://github.com/ndouglas-cloudsmith/ExploitPwned

https://github.com/Su1ph3r/Cepheus

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/52475

https://github.com/seta-hoangbui/CVE_search

https://github.com/gunyakit/CVE-2025-1974-PoC-exploit

https://github.com/Armand2002/Exploit-CVE-2025-1974-Lab

https://github.com/B1ack4sh/Blackash-CVE-2025-1974

https://github.com/PuddinCat/GithubRepoSpider

https://github.com/salt318/CVE-2025-1974

https://github.com/chhhd/CVE-2025-1974

https://github.com/Rubby2001/CVE-2025-1974-go

https://github.com/tuladhar/ingress-nightmare

https://github.com/accuknox/CVE-PoC-Collection

https://github.com/0xBingo/CVE-2025-1974

https://github.com/hakaioffsec/IngressNightmare-PoC

https://github.com/m-q-t/ingressnightmare-detection-poc

https://github.com/zwxxb/CVE-2025-1974

https://github.com/yanmarques/CVE-2025-1974

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250328-0008/

https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/131009

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-03-25

Updated: 2026-04-15

Named Vulnerability: IngressNightmare

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

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

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

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

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.99525

Vulnerability Watch

Tenable Research has classified this CVE under the following Vulnerability Watch classification, which includes active and historical (inactive) classifications. You can learn more about these classifications on our blog.

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