CVE-2026-24514 (GCVE-0-2026-24514)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-02-03 22:17 – Updated: 2026-02-18 17:29
VLAI
Title
ingress-nginx Admission Controller denial of service
Summary
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.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Kubernetes ingress-nginx Affected: 0 , < 1.13.7 (semver)
Affected: 0 , < 1.14.3 (semver)
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Date Public
2026-02-02 14:00
Credits
Matan Shabtay
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