CVE-2025-1974
ingress-nginx admission controller RCE escalation
Severity Score
9.8
*CVSS v3.1
Exploit Likelihood
*EPSS
Affected Versions
*CPE
Public Exploits
15
*Multiple Sources
Exploited in Wild
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*KEV
Decision
Attend
*SSVC
Descriptions
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 disclosure of Secrets accessible to the controller. (Note that in the default installation, the controller can access all Secrets cluster-wide.)
*Credits:
Nir Ohfeld, Ronen Shustin, Sagi Tzadik, Hillai Ben Sasson
CVSS Scores
Attack Vector
Attack Complexity
Privileges Required
User Interaction
Scope
Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability
Attack Vector
Attack Complexity
Authentication
Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability
* Common Vulnerability Scoring System
SSVC
- Decision:Attend
Exploitation
Automatable
Tech. Impact
* Organization's Worst-case Scenario
Timeline
- 2025-03-04 CVE Reserved
- 2025-03-24 CVE Published
- 2025-03-25 First Exploit
- 2025-03-27 CVE Updated
- 2025-04-01 EPSS Updated
- ---------- Exploited in Wild
- ---------- KEV Due Date
CWE
- CWE-653: Improper Isolation or Compartmentalization
CAPEC
- CAPEC-251: Local Code Inclusion
References (16)
| URL | Date | SRC |
|---|---|---|
| https://packetstorm.news/files/id/190070 | 2025-03-27 | |
| https://github.com/sandumjacob/IngressNightmare-POCs | 2025-03-26 | |
| https://github.com/yoshino-s/CVE-2025-1974 | 2025-03-26 | |
| https://github.com/yanmarques/CVE-2025-1974 | 2025-03-25 | |
| https://github.com/justmorpheus/IngressNightmare-CVE-2025-1974 | 2025-03-26 | |
| https://github.com/Esonhugh/nginxnightmare | 2025-03-27 | |
| https://github.com/Esonhugh/ingressNightmare-CVE-2025-1974-exps | 2025-03-27 | |
| https://github.com/dttuss/IngressNightmare-RCE-POC | 2025-03-26 | |
| https://github.com/zwxxb/CVE-2025-1974 | 2025-03-26 | |
| https://github.com/m-q-t/ingressnightmare-detection-poc | 2025-03-26 | |
| https://github.com/hi-unc1e/CVE-2025-1974-poc | 2025-03-27 | |
| https://github.com/0xBingo/CVE-2025-1974 | 2025-03-27 | |
| https://github.com/tuladhar/ingress-nightmare | 2025-03-27 | |
| https://github.com/rjhaikal/POC-IngressNightmare-CVE-2025-1974 | 2025-03-28 | |
| https://github.com/zulloper/CVE-2025-1974 | 2025-03-31 |
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Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions
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| Vendor | Product | Version | Other | Status | <-- --> | Vendor | Product | Version | Other | Status |
| Kubernetes Search vendor "Kubernetes" | Ingress-nginx Search vendor "Kubernetes" for product "Ingress-nginx" | <= 1.11.4 Search vendor "Kubernetes" for product "Ingress-nginx" and version " <= 1.11.4" | en |
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| Kubernetes Search vendor "Kubernetes" | Ingress-nginx Search vendor "Kubernetes" for product "Ingress-nginx" | 1.12.0 Search vendor "Kubernetes" for product "Ingress-nginx" and version "1.12.0" | en |
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