FKIE_CVE-2026-24514

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-02-03 23:16 - Updated: 2026-02-04 16:33
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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.
References
jordan@liggitt.nethttps://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/136680
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