CVE-2025-15566

Summary

A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx where the nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/auth-proxy-set-headers Ingress annotation can be used to inject configuration into nginx. This can lead to arbitrary code execution in the context of the ingress-nginx controller, and disclosure of Secrets accessible to the controller. (Note that in the default installation, the controller can access all Secrets cluster-wide.)

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
Kubernetesingress-nginx0 < 1.12.5affected
Kubernetesingress-nginx0 < 1.13.1affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-20: CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: total

References