CVE-2026-24514
MEDIUM6.5EPSS 0.02%ingress-nginx vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Published: 2/4/2026Modified: 5/20/2026
Description
A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx where the validating admission controller feature is subject to a denial of service condition. By sending large requests to the validating admission controller, an attacker can cause memory consumption, which may result in the ingress-nginx controller pod being killed or the node running out of memory.
Affected packages (2)
- Go/k8s.io/ingress-nginxfrom 0, < 1.13.7
- Go/k8s.io/ingress-nginxfrom 0
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |