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Improper Isolation or Compartmentalization

CVE-2025-1974

Severity High
Score 9.8/10

Summary

A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes where under certain conditions, an unauthenticated attacker with access to the pod network can achieve arbitrary code execution in the context of the ingress-nginx controller. This can lead to the disclosure of Secrets accessible to the controller. This issue affects github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx versions controller-v0.34.0 through controller-v1.11.4, controller-v1.12.0-beta.0 through controller-v1.12.0, helm-chart-3.16.0 through helm-chart-4.11.4, helm-chart-4.12.0-beta.0 through helm-chart-4.12.0, ingress-nginx-2.0.0 through ingress-nginx-3.15.2. (Note: In the default installation, the controller can access all Secrets cluster-wide.)

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-653 - Improper Isolation or Compartmentalization

The product does not properly compartmentalize or isolate functionality, processes, or resources that require different privilege levels, rights, or permissions.

Advisory Timeline

  • Published