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.
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| https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/136680 |
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Tue, 03 Feb 2026 22:45:00 +0000
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| 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. | |
| Title | ingress-nginx Admission Controller denial of service | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-770 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: kubernetes
Published:
Updated: 2026-02-03T22:17:25.137Z
Reserved: 2026-01-23T06:54:35.913Z
Link: CVE-2026-24514
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-02-03T23:16:07.280
Modified: 2026-02-03T23:16:07.280
Link: CVE-2026-24514
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