Description
A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx where a user that can create or update ingress objects can use .metadata.annotations in 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.
Published: 2022-05-06
Score: 7.6 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-12630 A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx where a user that can create or update ingress objects can use .metadata.annotations in 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.
History

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00284}

epss

{'score': 0.00342}


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Kubernetes Ingress-nginx
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: kubernetes

Published:

Updated: 2024-09-17T03:48:11.881Z

Reserved: 2021-01-21T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-25746

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-05-06T01:15:09.180

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:55:20.250

Link: CVE-2021-25746

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2022-04-22T16:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-25746 - Bugzilla

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