CVE-2025-1974 — ingress-nginx admission controller RCE escalation

Description (CNA)

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 that in the default installation, the controller can access all Secrets cluster-wide.)

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / product	Versions
kubernetes / ingress-nginx	affected 0 through 1.11.4; affected 1.12.0

CWE

CWE-653

References

https://https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/131009

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

No English description supplied.

No references supplied.

CVE

No English description supplied.

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250328-0008/
https://github.com/B1ack4sh/Blackash-CVE-2025-1974
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/52475