4.8

CVE-2025-24513: kubernetes ingress-nginx Improper Input Validation

CVSS: 4.8v3.1MediumDeferred
AliasesCGA-244v-rch2-j3qwCGA-696c-wwff-h9wrCGA-6cx9-c443-x357
Published 24-03-2025Last modified 03-11-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-24513 is a medium (CVSS 4.8) Improper Input Validation vulnerability in kubernetes ingress-nginx. EPSS estimates a 3.33% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88.4% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
20/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
4.8/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
3.33%
0%100%
Low · -0.20 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 1 · Related 7
OPENSUSE-SU-2025:14937-1CGA-66X3-Q3XJ-FQ35CGA-8598-H4CW-P482CGA-M3Q4-VMJ3-MF4RCGA-V9RF-35QF-9M3XCGA-W7MG-PPWV-WC8G

Timeline

  1. 24-03-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 03-11-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx where attacker-provided data are included in a filename by the ingress-nginx Admission Controller feature, resulting in directory traversal within the container. This could result in denial of service, or when combined with other vulnerabilities, limited disclosure of Secret objects from the cluster.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 5 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

3.33%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

88%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

-0.20 pp

From 3.54% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
3.33%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

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
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-1.14All versions (No fix recorded)
K8s.io1 product
  • ingress-nginx< 1.11.5 | ≥ 1.12.0-beta.0, < 1.12.1 | All versions (No fix recorded)
Kubernetes1 product

4 vendors · 17 products

References

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