Medium severity · published Feb 3, 2026
CVE-2026-24514
ingress-nginx Admission Controller denial of service
6.5
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 44% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
IN
ingress-nginx · Kubernetes
before 1.13.7; before 1.14.3 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-24514
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-24514
github.com
https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/136680
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