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CVE-2025-24513: ingress-nginx controller - auth secret file path traversal vulnerability

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-03-25 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx where attacker-provided data are included in a filename by the ingress-nginx Admission Controller feature, resulting in directory traversal within the container. This could result in denial of service, or when combined with other vulnerabilities, limited disclosure of Secret objects from the cluster.

Affected products

• Kubernetes ingress-nginx: through 1.11.4; 1.12.0

References

• https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/131005
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250328-0008/

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