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High · 7.1 CVE-2026-15228 EUVD-2026-50353

Kong Kubernetes Ingress Controller cluster-wide ingress configuration DoS via CA-certificate ID collision

Published Jul 29, 2026 · Updated Jul 29, 2026 · Assigned by Kong

Description

Kong Kubernetes Ingress Controller (KIC) allows a user with namespace-scoped Secret creation privileges to cause a cluster-wide ingress configuration denial of service. KIC collects CA-certificate Secrets across all watched namespaces using a label selector alone, without ingress-class or namespace restrictions. The CA-certificate primary key is derived from a user-supplied field in the Secret. Duplicate CA-certificate IDs cause Kong Gateway to reject the entire configuration document and halting all ingress changes cluster-wide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
— Kong/kubernetes-ingress-controller 3.4.0 – < 3.4.18, 3.5.0 – < 3.5.11 3.4.18

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