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SCA: security update for k8s.io/ingress-nginx (GHSA-hhpm-74pm-hf35)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 433843

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - The Kubernetes ingress-nginx component prior to version 0.28.0 allows a user with the ability to create
 namespaces and to read and create ingress objects to overwrite the password file of another ingress which
 uses nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/auth-type: basic and which has a hyphenated namespace or secret name.
 (CVE-2020-8553)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hhpm-74pm-hf35

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 433843

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.04

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-8553

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/24/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/29/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-8553