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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.8

CVE-2025-1974 in the critical feed json

ingress-nginx admission controller RCE escalation

published 2025-03-24 19 mo ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also EUVD-2025-8035 , GHSA-mgvx-rpfc-9mpv , GO-2025-3567

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
99.4%
EPSS 99.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.9%
public exploits
2
Exploit-DB, plus a Nuclei check

Summary

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.)

Patch / fix

  • go k8s.io/ingress-nginx 1.11.5, 1.12.1
  • kubernetes ingress-nginx 1.11.5, 1.12.1
  • kubernetes nginx_ingress_controller 1.11.5, 1.12.1
  • rke2-1.36 openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.36.4+rke2r1-1.1
  • rke2-1.35 openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.35.4+rke2r1-1.1
  • rke2-1.34 openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.34.3+rke2r1-1.1
  • rke2-1.33 openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.33.5+rke2r1-1.1
  • rke2-1.32 openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.32.4+rke2r1-1.1
  • govulncheck-vulndb openSUSE Tumbleweed 0.0.20250327T184518-1.1
  • rke2 openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.32.3+rke2r1-1.1
  • rke2-1.29 openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.29.15+rke2r1-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:11842-1openSUSE-SU-2026:10799-1openSUSE-SU-2026:10050-1openSUSE-SU-2025:15569-1openSUSE-SU-2025:15083-1openSUSE-SU-2025:14937-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2025-1974 updated cvss 9.8

ingress-nginx: ingress-nginx admission controller RCE escalation

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

cisa ICSA-25-100-05 updated cvss 9.8

Siemens Insights Hub Private Cloud

  • Siemens Insights Hub Private Cloud
    affected: vendor fix

Facts from CISA's republication of the vendor's own advisory (CSAF); the linked advisory is the authoritative source. CISA notification · csaf

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-52338)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
total
Assessed
19 mo ago

Exploit prediction

99.40% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.9% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-52475 Ingress-NGINX Admission Controller v1.11.1 - FD Injection to RCE remote, 2026-02-04
  • EDB-52338 Ingress-NGINX 4.11.0 - Remote Code Execution (RCE) remote, 2025-06-20
  • Nuclei template Ingress-Nginx Controller - Remote Code Execution nuclei detection template

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
GitHub 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go k8s.io/ingress-nginx
<1.11.5
>=1.12.0-beta.0, <1.12.1
all versions
1.11.5
1.12.1

Affected products

  • kubernetes ingress-nginx

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-653 Improper Isolation or Compartmentalization
Technology feeds

References

Sources

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