{"id":"CVE-2021-25745","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2021-25745","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T22:33:06.763Z","title":"A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx where a user that can create or update ingress objects can use the spec.rules[].http.paths[].path field of an Ingress object (in the networking.k8s.io or extensions API group) to obtain the credentials of…","description":"A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx where a user that can create or update ingress objects can use the spec.rules[].http.paths[].path field of 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.","published":"2022-05-06T01:15:09.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T03:42:24.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"jordan@liggitt.net","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":8.1,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-20"],"affected":["kubernetes/ingress-nginx"],"epss":{"score":0.01182,"percentile":0.67532,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.18%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/issues/8502","tags":["Issue Tracking","Mitigation","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"jordan@liggitt.net"},{"url":"https://groups.google.com/g/kubernetes-security-announce/c/7vQrpDZeBlc","tags":["Issue Tracking","Mailing List","Mitigation","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"jordan@liggitt.net"},{"url":"https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220609-0006/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"jordan@liggitt.net"},{"url":"https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/issues/8502","tags":["Issue Tracking","Mitigation","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://groups.google.com/g/kubernetes-security-announce/c/7vQrpDZeBlc","tags":["Issue Tracking","Mailing List","Mitigation","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220609-0006/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-25745","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}