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.
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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'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: kubernetes

Published:

Updated: 2026-02-03T22:17:25.137Z

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

Link: CVE-2026-24514

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

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

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

Link: CVE-2026-24514

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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