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CVE-2026-24514
MEDIUM6.5
Description
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.
CVE Details
CVSS v3.1 Score6.5
SeverityMEDIUM
CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack VectorNETWORK
ComplexityLOW
Privileges RequiredLOW
User InteractionNONE
Published2/3/2026
Last Modified2/4/2026
Sourcenvd
Honeypot Sightings0
Weaknesses (CWE)
CWE-770
References
https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/136680(jordan@liggitt.net)
IOC Correlations
No correlations recorded
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