CVE-2026-24514Medium· 6.5▾ TwilightPoC availableingress-nginx vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
▾ Twilight zone — High severity, or a signal on a lesser flaw
impact 35.8 · likelihood 0.1 · exploitation 12
A public proof-of-concept already exists for this vulnerability — see Exploit availability below.
Public exploit / PoC code seen in 1 source. Availability, not in-the-wild use.
Exploit-prediction probability, daily snapshots since Sep 12.
Disclosure to exploitation, from the record and what we observed since indexing it.
Disclosed via OSV
Last analysed / modified upstream
0.5%
1 GitHub repo (last check)
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.
k8s.io/ingress-nginx < 1.13.7k8s.io/ingress-nginx >= 1.14.0, < 1.14.3Upgrade to a patched release:
k8s.io/ingress-nginx 1.13.7k8s.io/ingress-nginx 1.14.3Connected by shared product, vendor, weakness, or advisory.
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