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CVE-2021-25746: [Security Advisory] CVE-2021-25746: Ingress-nginx directive injection via annotations
A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx where a user that can create or update ingress objects can use .metadata.annotations in an Ingress object (in the networking.k8s.io or extensions API group) to obtain the credentials of the ingress-nginx controller. In the default configuration, that credential has access to all secrets in the cluster.
CJ Cullen
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Issue Details
A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx where a user that can create or update ingress objects can use `.metadata.annotations` in an Ingress object (in the `networking.k8s.io` or `extensions` API group) to obtain the credentials of the ingress-nginx controller. In the default configuration, that credential has access to all secrets in the cluster.
This issue has been rated High (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L), and assigned CVE-2021-25746.
Affected Components and Configurations
This bug affects ingress-nginx. If you do not have ingress-nginx installed on your cluster, you are not affected. You can check this by running `kubectl get po -n ingress-nginx`.
Multitenant environments where non-admin users have permissions to create Ingress objects are most affected by this issue.
Affected Versions
- <v1.2.0
Fixed Versions
v1.2.0-beta.0
v1.2.0
Mitigation
If you are unable to roll out the fix, this vulnerability can be mitigated by implementing an admission policy that restricts the `metadata.annotations` values to known safe (see the newly added rules, or the suggested value for annotation-value-word-blocklist).
Detection
If you find evidence that this vulnerability has been exploited, please contact secu…@kubernetes.io
Additional Details
See ingress-nginx Issue #8503 for more details.
Acknowledgements
This vulnerability was reported by Anthony Weems, and separately by jeffrey&oliver.
Thank You,
CJ Cullen on behalf of the Kubernetes Security Response Committee
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