Ingress-nginx Vulnerable Validating Admission Controller Denial-of-Service
CVE-2026-24514 Published on February 3, 2026
ingress-nginx Admission Controller denial of service
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.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2026-24514 is exploitable with network access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have no impact on confidentiality and integrity, and a high impact on availability.
Weakness Type
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
The software allocates a reusable resource or group of resources on behalf of an actor without imposing any restrictions on the size or number of resources that can be allocated, in violation of the intended security policy for that actor.
Products Associated with CVE-2026-24514
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Affected Versions
Kubernetes ingress-nginx:- Before 1.13.7 is affected.
- Before 1.14.3 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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