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🛡️ BIT-nginx-ingress-controller-2024-7646 — nginx-ingress-controller (CVE-2024-7646)

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
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Description

A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx where an actor with permission to create Ingress objects (in the networking.k8s.io or extensions API group) can bypass annotation validation to inject arbitrary commands and obtain the credentials of the ingress-nginx controller. In the default configuration, that credential has access to all secrets in the cluster.

Affected software

BIT-nginx-ingress-controller-2024-7646 is recorded against 1 package.

  • nginx-ingress-controller

Timeline and source

Published on 20 August 2024 and last revised on 20 May 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

github.com (Web)
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www.openwall.com (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Web)

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Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-08-20
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-05-20
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
nginx-ingress-controller — —

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