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CVE-2026-24514: ingress-nginx Admission Controller denial of service
- Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2026-02-03 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-770
Description
A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx where the validating admission controller feature is subject to a denial of service condition. By sending large requests to the validating admission controller, an attacker can cause memory consumption, which may result in the ingress-nginx controller pod being killed or the node running out of memory.
Affected products
- Kubernetes ingress-nginx: before 1.13.7; before 1.14.3 — fixed in 1.13.7, 1.14.3
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: Kubernetes ingress-nginx 1.13.7, 1.14.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
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