CVE-2023-5043 – k8s.io/ingress-nginx

Package

Manager: go
Name: k8s.io/ingress-nginx
Vulnerable Version: >=0 <1.9.0

Severity

Level: High

CVSS v3.1: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L

CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H

EPSS: 0.02996 pctl0.86022

Details

Ingress nginx annotation injection causes arbitrary command execution ### Issue Details A security issue was identified in ingress-nginx where the nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/configuration-snippet annotation on an Ingress object (in the networking.k8s.io or extensions API group) can be used to inject arbitrary commands, and obtain the credentials of the ingress-nginx controller. In the default configuration, that credential has access to all secrets in the cluster. This issue has been rated High (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L), and assigned CVE-2023-5043. ### Affected Components and Configurations This bug affects ingress-nginx. If you do not have ingress-nginx installed on your cluster, you are not affected. You can check this by running kubectl get po -n ingress-nginx. If you are running the “chrooted” ingress-nginx controller introduced in v1.2.0 (gcr.io/k8s-staging-ingress-nginx/controller-chroot), command execution is possible but credential extraction is not, so the High severity does not apply. Multi-tenant environments where non-admin users have permissions to create Ingress objects are most affected by this issue. #### Affected Versions <v1.9.0 #### Versions allowing mitigation v1.9.0 ### Mitigation Ingress Administrators should set the --enable-annotation-validation flag to enforce restrictions on the contents of ingress-nginx annotation fields. ### Detection If you find evidence that this vulnerability has been exploited, please contact security@kubernetes.io ### Additional Details See ingress-nginx Issue [#10571](https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/issues/10571) for more details. ### Acknowledgements This vulnerability was reported by suanve Thank You, CJ Cullen on behalf of the Kubernetes Security Response Committee

Metadata

Created: 2023-10-25T21:30:33Z
Modified: 2025-02-13T19:18:20Z
Source: https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2023/10/GHSA-5wj4-wffq-3378/GHSA-5wj4-wffq-3378.json
CWE IDs: ["CWE-20", "CWE-74"]
Alternative ID: GHSA-5wj4-wffq-3378
Finding: F184
Auto approve: 1