{"id":"CVE-2024-7646","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2024-7646","generatedAt":"2026-11-04T21:27:37.441Z","title":"A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx where an actor with permission to create Ingress objects (in the `networking.k8s.io` or `extensions` API group) can bypass annotation validation to inject arbitrary commands and obtain the credentials of…","description":"A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx where an actor with permission to create Ingress objects (in the `networking.k8s.io` or `extensions` API group) can bypass annotation validation to inject arbitrary commands and obtain the credentials of the ingress-nginx controller. In the default configuration, that credential has access to all secrets in the cluster.","published":"2024-08-16T18:15:11.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T08:20:37.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"jordan@liggitt.net","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":8.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-20"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.27018,"percentile":0.98046,"date":"2026-11-03","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"urgent","text":"EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 27.0%, higher than 98% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/pull/11719","source":"jordan@liggitt.net"},{"url":"https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/pull/11721","source":"jordan@liggitt.net"},{"url":"https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/126744","source":"jordan@liggitt.net"},{"url":"https://groups.google.com/g/kubernetes-security-announce/c/a1__cKjWkfA","source":"jordan@liggitt.net"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/08/16/5","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-7646","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."}