CVE-2025-1974 - CVE House
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Status published Critical CVE-2025-1974

ingress-nginx admission controller RCE escalation

Vulnerability Description

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.)

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • Nir Ohfeld
  • Ronen Shustin
  • Sagi Tzadik
  • Hillai Ben Sasson

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

ingress-nginx
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 1.12.0

Timeline

Official Publish: March 24th, 2025
Last Modified: February 26th, 2026
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-653

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.