A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx where the validating admission controller feature is subject to a denial of service condition. By sending large requests to the validating admission controller, an attacker can cause memory consumption, which may result in the ingress-nginx controller pod being killed or the node running out of memory.
PUBLISHED5.2CWE-770
ingress-nginx Admission Controller denial of service
Problem type
Affected products
Kubernetes
ingress-nginx
< 1.13.7 - AFFECTED
< 1.14.2 - AFFECTED
References
GitHub Security Advisories
GHSA-2pf9-vr92-6h3v
A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx where the validating admission controller...
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2pf9-vr92-6h3vA security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx where the validating admission controller feature is subject to a denial of service condition. By sending large requests to the validating admission controller, an attacker can cause memory consumption, which may result in the ingress-nginx controller pod being killed or the node running out of memory.
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