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CVE-2023-5043

HIGH
Published 2023-10-25T19:18:57.704Z
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CVSS Score

V3.1
7.6
/10
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L
Base Score Metrics
Exploitability: N/A Impact: N/A

EPSS Score

v2025.03.14
0.033
probability
of exploitation in the wild

There is a 3.3% chance that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.

Updated: 2025-06-25
Exploit Probability
Percentile: 0.866
Higher than 86.6% of all CVEs

Attack Vector Metrics

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED

Impact Metrics

Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
LOW
Availability
LOW

Description

Ingress nginx annotation injection causes arbitrary command execution.

Available Exploits

No exploits available for this CVE.

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GitHub Security Advisories

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✓ GitHub Reviewed HIGH

Ingress nginx annotation injection causes arbitrary command execution

GHSA-5wj4-wffq-3378

Advisory Details

### Issue Details A security issue was identified in ingress-nginx where the nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/configuration-snippet annotation on an Ingress object (in the networking.k8s.io or extensions API group) can be used 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. This issue has been rated High (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L), and assigned CVE-2023-5043. ### Affected Components and Configurations This bug affects ingress-nginx. If you do not have ingress-nginx installed on your cluster, you are not affected. You can check this by running kubectl get po -n ingress-nginx. If you are running the “chrooted” ingress-nginx controller introduced in v1.2.0 (gcr.io/k8s-staging-ingress-nginx/controller-chroot), command execution is possible but credential extraction is not, so the High severity does not apply. Multi-tenant environments where non-admin users have permissions to create Ingress objects are most affected by this issue. #### Affected Versions <v1.9.0 #### Versions allowing mitigation v1.9.0 ### Mitigation Ingress Administrators should set the --enable-annotation-validation flag to enforce restrictions on the contents of ingress-nginx annotation fields. ### Detection If you find evidence that this vulnerability has been exploited, please contact [email protected] ### Additional Details See ingress-nginx Issue [#10571](https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/issues/10571) for more details. ### Acknowledgements This vulnerability was reported by suanve Thank You, CJ Cullen on behalf of the Kubernetes Security Response Committee

Affected Packages

Go k8s.io/ingress-nginx
ECOSYSTEM: ≥0 <1.9.0

CVSS Scoring

CVSS Score

7.5

CVSS Vector

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

Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: October 25, 2023, Modified: February 13, 2025

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Published: 2023-10-25T19:18:57.704Z
Last Modified: 2025-02-13T17:19:26.664Z
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