Upstream information
Description
A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx where a user that can create or update ingress objects can use .metadata.annotations in 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.SUSE information
Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products
This issue is currently rated as having important severity.
| CVSS detail | National Vulnerability Database |
|---|---|
| Base Score | 5.5 |
| Vector | AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N |
| Access Vector | Network |
| Access Complexity | Low |
| Authentication | Single |
| Confidentiality Impact | Partial |
| Integrity Impact | Partial |
| Availability Impact | None |
| CVSS detail | National Vulnerability Database | SUSE |
|---|---|---|
| Base Score | 7.1 | 7.6 |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L |
| Attack Vector | Network | Network |
| Attack Complexity | Low | Low |
| Privileges Required | Low | Low |
| User Interaction | None | None |
| Scope | Unchanged | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality Impact | High | High |
| Integrity Impact | Low | Low |
| Availability Impact | None | Low |
| CVSSv3 Version | 3.1 | 3.1 |
SUSE Timeline for this CVE
CVE page created: Fri Apr 22 20:01:27 2022CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 19:29:35 2025