9.8

CVE-2025-1974: kubernetes ingress-nginx

CVSS: 9.8v3.1CriticalDeferred
AliasesCGA-4xh9-6ccm-p4cfCGA-6xmr-pwx2-m2wfCGA-7xg6-4gmc-9hg3
Published 24-03-2025Last modified 26-02-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-1974 is a critical (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability in kubernetes ingress-nginx. EPSS estimates a 99.38% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.9% of scored vulnerabilities. 2 public exploits are recorded.

Overall risk
70/100
0100
High · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
9.8/10
010
Critical · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
99.38%
0%100%
Critical · -0.14 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits2exploit-database

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 1 · Related 7
OPENSUSE-SU-2025:14937-1CGA-893V-GWPR-HJCJCGA-JP8X-3FH5-27PMCGA-P227-82FV-47J8CGA-WCPV-CM3G-QCMWCGA-WWH6-6C27-3Q35

Timeline

  1. 24-03-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 26-02-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.)

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 5 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

99.38%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

100%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

-0.14 pp

From 99.52% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
99.38%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

2 found
  • exploit-databaseremotemultipleVerified

    Ingress-NGINX 4.11.0 - Remote Code Execution (RCE)

    Maturity: weaponized

  • exploit-databaseremotemultipleUnverified

    Ingress-NGINX Admission Controller v1.11.1 - FD Injection to RCE

    Maturity: poc

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Chainguard10 products
  • ingress-nginx-controller-1.12< 1.12.1-r14
  • ingress-nginx-controller-1.13< 1.13.9-r14
  • ingress-nginx-controller-1.14< 1.14.5-r16
  • ingress-nginx-controller-1.15All versions (No fix recorded)
  • ingress-nginx-controller-fips-1.12< 1.12.1-r0
Opensuse9 products
  • rke2-1.29&distro=openSUSE Tumbleweed< 1.29.15+rke2r1-1.1
  • rke2-1.30&distro=openSUSE Tumbleweed< 1.30.11+rke2r1-1.1
  • rke2-1.31&distro=openSUSE Tumbleweed< 1.31.7+rke2r1-1.1
  • rke2-1.32&distro=openSUSE Tumbleweed< 1.32.4+rke2r1-1.1
  • rke2-1.33&distro=openSUSE Tumbleweed< 1.33.5+rke2r1-1.1
Wolfi5 products
  • ingress-nginx-controller-1.12< 1.12.1-r14
  • ingress-nginx-controller-1.14< 1.14.5-r16
  • ingress-nginx-controller-1.15All versions (No fix recorded)
  • ingress-nginx-custom-error-pages-1.14< 1.14.5-r27
  • ingress-nginx-custom-error-pages-compat-1.14< 1.14.5-r27
K8s.io1 product
  • ingress-nginx< 1.11.5 | ≥ 1.12.0-beta.0, < 1.12.1 | All versions (No fix recorded)
Kubernetes1 product

5 vendors · 26 products

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