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Medium · 4.8 CVE-2025-24513 EUVD-2025-8032GHSA-242m-6h72-7hgpGO-2025-3564

ingress-nginx controller - auth secret file path traversal vulnerability

Published Mar 24, 2025 · Updated Nov 3, 2025 · Assigned by kubernetes

Description

A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx where attacker-provided data are included in a filename by the ingress-nginx Admission Controller feature, resulting in directory traversal within the container. This could result in denial of service, or when combined with other vulnerabilities, limited disclosure of Secret objects from the cluster.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
kubernetes ingress-nginx ≤ 1.11.4, 1.12.0 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20250327T184518-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2025:14937-1

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling ingress-nginx-controller-1.12 1.12.1-r14 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go k8s.io/ingress-nginx < 1.11.5 1.11.5 GHSA-242m-6h72-7hgp
Go k8s.io/ingress-nginx >= 1.12.0-beta.0, < 1.12.1 1.12.1 GHSA-242m-6h72-7hgp
Go k8s.io/ingress-nginx all versions — GO-2025-3564

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