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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.8

CVE-2025-24513 json

ingress-nginx controller - auth secret file path traversal vulnerability

published 2025-03-24 19 mo ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also EUVD-2025-8032 , GHSA-242m-6h72-7hgp , GO-2025-3564

cvss
4.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.3%
EPSS 3.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 88%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

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
  • govulncheck-vulndb openSUSE Tumbleweed 0.0.20250327T184518-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-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-2025-24513 updated cvss 4.8

ingress-nginx: ingress-nginx controller - auth secret file path traversal vulnerability

  • 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 4.8

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

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
19 mo ago

Exploit prediction

3.33% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 4.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
GitHub 3.1 4.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L

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-20 Improper Input Validation
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory
Technology feeds

References

Sources

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