High severity · published Sep 2, 2026
CVE-2026-77180
NGINX Ingress Controller vulnerability
8.3
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
When NGINX Ingress Controller is configured with Ingress annotations, an injection vulnerability exists in the configuration generator of NGINX Ingress Controller. Multiple user-controllable fields are written into the generated NGINX configuration without sanitization. An authenticated attacker with permission to create or modify these annotations may craft values that inject arbitrary NGINX configuration directives.
Impact:
An authenticated attacker granted write access to NGINX Ingress Controller Ingress annotations through the Kubernetes API may be able to inject arbitrary NGINX configuration directives, create or delete files, or disable services. There is no data plane exposure; this is a control plane issue only.
Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
Low
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 42% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
NI
NGINX Ingress Controller · F5
5.0.0 before 5.6.0; 2026-lts-r1 before 2026-lts-r5 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-77180
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-77180
my.f5.com
https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K000162601
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