CVE-2025-24513ingress-nginx controller - auth secret file path traversal vulnerability
- 4.8MediumCVSS base score
- 3.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 11% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx where attacker-provided data are included in a filename by the ingress-nginx Admission Controller feature, resulting in directory traversal within the container. This could result in denial of service, or when combined with other vulnerabilities, limited disclosure of Secret objects from the cluster.
Timeline
ID reserved
By kubernetes
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Published
- 7 months later
· 7 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| kubernetesCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium4.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium4.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.3% · top 11% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.8.
Affected products
- affected ≤ 1.11.4
- affected 1.12.0
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gok8s.io/ingress-nginxGHSA-242m-6h72-7hgp (opens in a new tab)
References
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2025-8032 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-242m-6h72-7hgp (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2025-24513)Record last updated .