Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Ingress-NGINX Controller for Kubernetes - CVE-2025-1098

 

Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Ingress-NGINX Controller for Kubernetes - CVE-2025-1098

Published: March 24, 2025 / Updated: March 25, 2025


Vulnerability identifier: #VU105986
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-1098
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote user to compromise the affected system.

The vulnerability exists due to "mirror-target" and "mirror-host" Ingress annotations can be used to inject arbitrary configuration into nginx. A remote user can execute arbitrary code in the context of the ingress-nginx controller and disclose Secrets accessible to the controller.


Affected software

Ingress-NGINX Controller for Kubernetes
SmartFabric Manager
Dell EMC Container Storage Modules

How to mitigate CVE-2025-1098

Install update from vendor's website.

Ingress-NGINX Controller for Kubernetes - addressed in versions 1.11.5, 1.12.1
SmartFabric Manager - update to 1.3.0
Dell EMC Container Storage Modules - update to 1.14.0

External References

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