CVE-2026-24514

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.

CVSS v3 6.5 MEDIUM

6.5^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 2.8 / Impact : 3.6

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/136680

Configurations

No configuration.

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2026-02-03 23:16

Updated : 2026-06-17 10:23

NVD link : CVE-2026-24514

Mitre link : CVE-2026-24514

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-24514

JSON object : View

Products Affected

No product.

CWE

CWE-770

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

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