CVE-2026-24514CWE-770

ingress-nginx Admission Controller denial of service

Medium · published February 3, 2026

CVSS v3.1
6.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
43.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00522 · 43.5th percentile
Weakness
CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Published
2026-02-03T22:17Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 03 FEB 22:17Z
    ingress-nginx Admission Controller denial of service
    cvelistv5