Description
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.
Published: 2026-02-03
Score: 6.5 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: Denial of Service
Action: Patch Now
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-2pf9-vr92-6h3v ingress-nginx vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
History

Wed, 04 Feb 2026 15:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Wed, 04 Feb 2026 12:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Kubernetes
Kubernetes ingress-nginx
Vendors & Products Kubernetes
Kubernetes ingress-nginx

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 22:45:00 +0000

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Description 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.
Title ingress-nginx Admission Controller denial of service
Weaknesses CWE-770
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}


Subscriptions

Kubernetes Ingress-nginx
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: kubernetes

Published:

Updated: 2026-02-18T17:29:47.895Z

Reserved: 2026-01-23T06:54:35.913Z

Link: CVE-2026-24514

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-02-04T14:39:10.315Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2026-02-03T23:16:07.280

Modified: 2026-04-15T00:35:42.020

Link: CVE-2026-24514

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-04-18T00:00:09Z

Weaknesses