CVE-2021-25746

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.
References
Link Resource
https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/issues/8503 Issue Tracking Mitigation Third Party Advisory
https://groups.google.com/g/kubernetes-security-announce/c/hv2-SfdqcfQ Issue Tracking Mitigation Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220609-0006/ Third Party Advisory
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:kubernetes:ingress-nginx:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

02 Dec 2022, 23:05

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References (CONFIRM) https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220609-0006/ - (CONFIRM) https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220609-0006/ - Third Party Advisory

09 Jun 2022, 19:15

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References
  • (CONFIRM) https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220609-0006/ -

13 May 2022, 19:38

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First Time Kubernetes
Kubernetes ingress-nginx
References (MISC) https://groups.google.com/g/kubernetes-security-announce/c/hv2-SfdqcfQ - (MISC) https://groups.google.com/g/kubernetes-security-announce/c/hv2-SfdqcfQ - Issue Tracking, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
References (MISC) https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/issues/8503 - (MISC) https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/issues/8503 - Issue Tracking, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
CVSS v2 : unknown
v3 : unknown
v2 : 5.5
v3 : 7.1
CWE CWE-20
CPE cpe:2.3:a:kubernetes:ingress-nginx:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

06 May 2022, 01:15

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New CVE

Information

Published : 2022-05-06 01:15

Updated : 2023-12-10 14:22


NVD link : CVE-2021-25746

Mitre link : CVE-2021-25746

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2021-25746


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Products Affected

kubernetes

  • ingress-nginx
CWE
CWE-20

Improper Input Validation