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CVE-2025-1974: ingress-nginx admission controller RCE escalation

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 99.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2025-03-25 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-653

Description

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 products

• Kubernetes ingress-nginx: through 1.11.4; 1.12.0

References

• https://https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/131009
• https://github.com/B1ack4sh/Blackash-CVE-2025-1974
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250328-0008/
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/52475

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