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CVE-2018-1002104

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-01-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-215

Description

Versions < 1.5 of the Kubernetes ingress default backend, which handles invalid ingress traffic, exposed prometheus metrics publicly.

Affected products

• Kubernetes Nginx Ingress Controller: before 1.5.0 — fixed in 1.5.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Kubernetes Nginx Ingress Controller 1.5.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/pull/3125
• https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/pull/3125

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