CVE-2026-24514

medium

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.

References

https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/136680

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-5515

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-02-03

Updated: 2026-04-15

Named Vulnerability: GO-2026-4417Named Vulnerability: GHSA-2pf9-vr92-6h3v

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00522