TI-2026-19757 Aliases CVE-2026-24514 GHSA-2pf9-vr92-6h3v

ingress-nginx Admission Controller denial of service

LOW 29CWE-770Published 2026-02-03 · Updated 2026-02-18

Key facts

Attack vector: Network
Privileges required: Low
User interaction: None
Attack complexity: Low
Impact type: Denial of service
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: None · None · High
Fix status: Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-770.

Summary

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.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.00515 44th percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix Fixed ingress-nginx (Kubernetes): 1.13.7, 1.14.3k8s.io/ingress-nginx (Go): 1.13.7, 1.14.3

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: None
Automatable: No
Technical impact: Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
Kubernetes	ingress-nginx	before 1.13.7; before 1.14.3	1.13.7, 1.14.3	Patch available	CNA
—	k8s.io/ingress-nginx (Go)	before 1.13.7	1.13.7	Patch available	GHSA-2pf9-vr92-6h3v
—	k8s.io/ingress-nginx (Go)	1.14.0 to before 1.14.3	1.14.3	Patch available	GHSA-2pf9-vr92-6h3v

ingress-nginx VendorKubernetes Affected before 1.13.7; before 1.14.3 Fixed in 1.13.7, 1.14.3 Patch available CNA
k8s.io/ingress-nginx (Go) Vendor— Affected before 1.13.7 Fixed in 1.13.7 Patch available GHSA-2pf9-vr92-6h3v
k8s.io/ingress-nginx (Go) Vendor— Affected 1.14.0 to before 1.14.3 Fixed in 1.14.3 Patch available GHSA-2pf9-vr92-6h3v

Remediation

Fix · CNA ingress-nginx (Kubernetes) Fixed in 1.13.7, 1.14.3
Fix · GHSA-2pf9-vr92-6h3v k8s.io/ingress-nginx (Go) Fixed in 1.13.7 Advisory →
Fix · GHSA-2pf9-vr92-6h3v k8s.io/ingress-nginx (Go) Fixed in 1.14.3 Advisory →

Fixed in the same release

Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.

Release · 2026-02-03
Kubernetes ingress-nginx 1.13.7, 1.14.3
4 records Highest priority Priority MEDIUM 2 MEDIUM, 2 LOW
Other records, highest priority first
- TI-2026-19755 ingress-nginx auth-method nginx configuration injectionPriority MEDIUM 41
- TI-2026-01268 ingress-nginx auth-method nginx configuration injectionPriority MEDIUM 41
- TI-2026-19756 ingress-nginx auth-url protection bypassPriority LOW 15
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Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-24514
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-2pf9-vr92-6h3v

References

Advisory 1

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-24514

Other 2

TI-2025-01719 ingress-nginx admission controller RCE escalation CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2018-16130 Improper privilege management in Kubernetes CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2025-00932 ingress-nginx controller - configuration injection via unsanitized mirror annotations CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
TI-2019-08418 Kubernetes kubelet exposes /debug/pprof info on healthz port CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.2
TI-2026-02839 ingress-nginx rewrite-target nginx configuration injection CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
TI-2025-18233 ingress-nginx controller - configuration injection via unsanitized auth-url annotation CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8

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Sources

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