Ingress-nginx admission controller RCE escalation (CVE-2025-1974)

A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes where under certain conditions, an unauthenticated attacker with access to the pod network can achieve arbitrary code execution in the context of the ingress-nginx controller. This can lead to disclosure of Secrets accessible to the controller. Note...

CVE-2025-1974

CVE-2025-1974 affects the Ingress-NGINX controller in Kubernetes, enabling unauthenticated code execution when a pod-network–reachable attacker can reach the admission/controller path. Public exploits exist (Ingress-NGINX Admission Controller RCE and related PoCs), with published exploit details ...