Critical severity · published Mar 24, 2025
CVE-2025-1974
ingress-nginx admission controller RCE escalation
9.8
CVSS
99.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes where under certain conditions, an unauthenticated attacker with access to the pod network can achieve arbitrary code execution in the context of the ingress-nginx controller. This can lead to disclosure of Secrets accessible to the controller. (Note that in the default installation, the controller can access all Secrets cluster-wide.)
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)99.4% · higher than 100% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
IN
ingress-nginx · kubernetes
through 1.11.4; 1.12.0 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-1974
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-1974
https
https://https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/131009
github.com
https://github.com/B1ack4sh/Blackash-CVE-2025-1974
security.netapp.com
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250328-0008/
www.exploit-db.com
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/52475
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