Vulnerability details

CVE-2025-1098

Kubernetes ingress-nginx

ingress-nginx controller - configuration injection via unsanitized mirror annotations

CVSS 3.1
8.8High

Official description

A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx where the `mirror-target` and `mirror-host` Ingress annotations can be used to inject arbitrary 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.)

CVSS scores

ScoreVersionSourceVector
8.8High 3.1 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA) (kubernetes) CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

VendorProductVersionsSource
Kubernetes ingress-nginx v ≤ 1.11.4 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Kubernetes ingress-nginx 1.12.0 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)

References and advisories

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Details

Published
2025-03-25
Last updated
2026-02-26
State
Published
Assigner (CNA)
kubernetes

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

86.14%
Probability of exploitation in 30 days
99.7%
Percentile (among all CVEs)

SSVC assessment (CISA)

Automatable
No
Exploitation
None
Technical impact
Total

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-20
    Improper Input Validation