---
id: CVE-2026-24514
aliases:
  - GHSA-2pf9-vr92-6h3v
  - GO-2026-4417
title: >-
  ingress-nginx vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or
  Throttling 
summary: >-
  ingress-nginx vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or
  Throttling 
severity: medium
cvss: 6.5
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'
vendor: ingress-nginx
product: k8s.io/ingress-nginx
ecosystem: go
affected:
  - k8s.io/ingress-nginx < 1.13.7
  - 'k8s.io/ingress-nginx >= 1.14.0, < 1.14.3'
patched:
  - k8s.io/ingress-nginx 1.13.7
  - k8s.io/ingress-nginx 1.14.3
published: '2026-02-04'
updated: '2026-09-10'
sourceUpdated: '2026-09-10T03:50:33.753756710Z'
source: OSV
sourceUrl: 'https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-2pf9-vr92-6h3v'
references:
  - url: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-24514'
  - url: 'https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/136680'
  - url: 'https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx'
tags:
  - osv
  - go
  - exploit-available
epss: 0.00488
epssPercentile: 0.39468
exploits:
  github: 1
  githubRepos:
    - 'https://github.com/mbanyamer/cve-2026-24514-Kubernetes-Dos'
  checkedAt: '2026-09-26T09:05:40.563Z'
exploitAvailable: true
ingestedAt: '2026-09-12T03:13:01.746Z'
---

## Overview

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.

## Affected packages

- `k8s.io/ingress-nginx < 1.13.7`
- `k8s.io/ingress-nginx >= 1.14.0, < 1.14.3`

## Remediation

Upgrade to a patched release:

- `k8s.io/ingress-nginx 1.13.7`
- `k8s.io/ingress-nginx 1.14.3`