# CVE-2024-7646: A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx where an actor with permission to create Ingress objects (in the \`networking.k8s.io\` or \`ex

- Also known as: GO-2024-3075
- Severity: CVSS 8.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 2 GitHub repos listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Fixed in: 1.11.2, 1.10.4
- Published: 2024-08-16 · Updated: 2024-08-19

## Affected

- Kubernetes ingress-nginx: from 1.11.0, fixed in 1.11.2; fixed in 1.10.4
- github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx (Go): all versions

## Description

A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx where an actor with permission to create Ingress objects (in the `networking.k8s.io` or `extensions` API group) can bypass annotation validation to inject arbitrary commands and obtain the credentials of the ingress-nginx controller. In the default configuration, that credential has access to all secrets in the cluster.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Kubernetes, upgrade to a fixed version (1.11.2, 1.10.4) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/126744
- https://groups.google.com/g/kubernetes-security-announce/c/a1__cKjWkfA
- https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/pull/11719
- https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/pull/11721
- https://github.com/dovics/cve-2024-7646
- https://github.com/r0binak/CVE-2024-7646

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