CVE-2025-1097: CWE-20 Improper Input Validation in kubernetes ingress-nginx
A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx where the `auth-tls-match-cn` 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.)
CVE-2025-1097: CWE-20 Improper Input Validation in kubernetes ingress-nginx
Description
A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx where the `auth-tls-match-cn` 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.)
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- kubernetes
- Date Reserved
- 2025-02-07T00:11:49.551Z
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
- State
- PUBLISHED
Threat ID: 69091a49c28fd46ded81d02f
Added to database: 11/3/2025, 9:10:33 PM
Last updated: 11/3/2025, 9:13:33 PM
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