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SCA: security update for k8s.io/ingress-nginx (GHSA-863x-868h-968x)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 412457

Description

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

 - A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx where a user that can create or update ingress objects
 can use a newline character to bypass the sanitization of the `spec.rules[].http.paths[].path` field of 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. (CVE-2021-25748)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-863x-868h-968x

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 412457

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.68

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-25748

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/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: 5/24/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/24/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-25748

cwe: CWE-20