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CVE-2026-24514: ingress-nginx vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

February 4, 2026

A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx where the validating admission controller feature is subject to a denial of service condition. By sending large requests to the validating admission controller, an attacker can cause memory consumption, which may result in the ingress-nginx controller pod being killed or the node running out of memory.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-2pf9-vr92-6h3v
  • github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx
  • github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/136680
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-24514

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Affected versions

All versions before 1.13.7, all versions starting from 1.14.0 before 1.14.3

Fixed versions

  • 1.13.7
  • 1.14.3

Solution

Upgrade to versions 1.13.7, 1.14.3 or above.

Impact 6.5 MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Weakness

  • CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Source file

go/k8s.io/ingress-nginx/CVE-2026-24514.yml

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