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Paper/Archive/CVE-2025-1974

CVE-2025-1974

kubernetes ingress-nginx — ingress-nginx admission controller RCE escalation

EPSS 99%public exploitCVSS 9.8
critical.is priorityof 100
59
CVSS 9.8 (CNA)9.8 / 10 × 3029.4Not in CISA KEV+300.0EPSS percentile 99.9.999 × 2020.0Exploit: SSVC poc+1010.0SSVC exploitation: poc+100.0
Description · from the CVE record

A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes where under certain conditions, an unauthenticated attacker with access to the pod network can achieve arbitrary code execution in the context of the ingress-nginx controller. This can lead to disclosure of Secrets accessible to the controller. (Note that in the default installation, the controller can access all Secrets cluster-wide.)

Affected

ProductAffectedFixed inSource
ingress-nginx≤ 1.11.4–CNA
ingress-nginx1.12.0–CNA

Scores by source

kubernetes (CNA)9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA ADPSSVCExploitation: poc · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total

References

refhttps://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/131009refsecurity.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250328-0008refgithub.com/B1ack4sh/Blackash-CVE-2025-1974refexploit-db.com/exploits/52475