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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2020-8553

The Kubernetes ingress-nginx component prior to version 0.28.0 allows a user with the ability to create namespaces and to read and create ingress objects to overwrite the password file of another ingress which uses nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/auth-type:…

MEDIUM 5.9EPSS 0.89%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.89%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

The Kubernetes ingress-nginx component prior to version 0.28.0 allows a user with the ability to create namespaces and to read and create ingress objects to overwrite the password file of another ingress which uses nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/auth-type: basic and which has a hyphenated namespace or secret name.

CVSS 3.1
5.9 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS
0.89% probability · 57th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-73, CWE-610
Affected
kubernetes/ingress-nginx
Source
jordan@liggitt.net

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.