A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx where a user that can create or update ingress objects can use the spec.rules[].http.paths[].path field of an Ingress object (in the networking.k8s.io or extensions API group) to obtain the credentials of the ingress-nginx controller. In the default configuration, that credential has access to all secrets in the cluster.

Affected Packages

Go k8s.io/ingress-nginx

Affected versions: 0 (fixed in 1.2.0)

Related CVEs

CVE-2021-25745

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-pvmg-xgmx-9mxh

Published

May 7, 2022 12:00 AM

Last Modified

May 25, 2022 7:29 PM

CVSS Score

7.5 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Primary Package

k8s.io/ingress-nginx

GitHub Reviewed

✓ Yes

Dataset

Last updated: November 24, 2025 6:29 AM

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