CVE-2026-24513

Summary

A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx where the protection afforded by the auth-url Ingress annotation may not be effective in the presence of a specific misconfiguration.

If the ingress-nginx controller is configured with a default custom-errors configuration that includes HTTP errors 401 or 403, and if the configured default custom-errors backend is defective and fails to respect the X-Code HTTP header, then an Ingress with the auth-url annotation may be accessed even when authentication fails.

Note that the built-in custom-errors backend works correctly. To trigger this issue requires an administrator to specifically configure ingress-nginx with a broken external component.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
Kubernetesingress-nginx0 < 1.13.7affected
Kubernetesingress-nginx0 < 1.14.3affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-754: CWE-754 Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

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

References