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SCA: security update for k8s.io/ingress-nginx (GHSA-pvmg-xgmx-9mxh)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 417719

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 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-2021-25745)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pvmg-xgmx-9mxh

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 417719

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: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.55

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-25745

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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: 5/7/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/22/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-25745

cwe: CWE-20