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CVE-2021-25745

A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx where a user that can create or update ingress objects can use the spec.rules[].http.paths[].path field of 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.

Severity
High 8.1
Published
6 May 2022
Last changed
17 Jun 2026
Added to UpHeron
1 Nov 2026
Fixed in
1.2.0
Sources
NVD

Affected software

SoftwareAffected versions
Ingress NGINX ControllerServers and applications · cpe:a:kubernetes:ingress-nginx
  • Every version before 1.2.0

References

  • NVD https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-25745
  • CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-25745