A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx where an actor with permission to create Ingress objects (in the `networking.k8s.io` or `extensions` API group) can bypass annotation validation to inject arbitrary commands and obtain the credentials of the ingress-nginx controller. In the default configuration, that credential has access to all secrets in the cluster.
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Description A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx where an actor with permission to create Ingress objects (in the `networking.k8s.io` or `extensions` API group) can bypass annotation validation to inject arbitrary commands and obtain the credentials of the ingress-nginx controller. In the default configuration, that credential has access to all secrets in the cluster.
Weaknesses CWE-20
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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 8.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: kubernetes

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-19T18:28:09.677Z

Reserved: 2024-08-09T14:23:20.118Z

Link: CVE-2024-7646

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-16T20:02:54.833Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2024-08-16T18:15:10.970

Modified: 2024-11-21T09:51:52.213

Link: CVE-2024-7646

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Updated: 2025-07-13T11:32:30Z