CVE-2026-24514

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.

Affected Software

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

Weaknesses

  • CWE-770: CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

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

References