A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx where the validating admission controller feature is subject to a denial of service condition. By sending large requests to the validating admission controller, an attacker can cause memory consumption, which may result in the ingress-nginx controller pod being killed or the node running out of memory.
History

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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First Time appeared Kubernetes
Kubernetes ingress-nginx
Vendors & Products Kubernetes
Kubernetes ingress-nginx

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Description A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx where the validating admission controller feature is subject to a denial of service condition. By sending large requests to the validating admission controller, an attacker can cause memory consumption, which may result in the ingress-nginx controller pod being killed or the node running out of memory.
Title ingress-nginx Admission Controller denial of service
Weaknesses CWE-770
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: kubernetes

Published: 2026-02-03T22:17:25.137Z

Updated: 2026-02-04T14:39:16.786Z

Reserved: 2026-01-23T06:54:35.913Z

Link: CVE-2026-24514

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-02-04T14:39:10.315Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-02-03T23:16:07.280

Modified: 2026-02-04T16:33:44.537

Link: CVE-2026-24514

cve-icon Redhat

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