cve-2020-8553
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-07-29 14:53
Modified
2024-08-04 10:03
Severity ?
5.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Summary
The Kubernetes ingress-nginx component prior to version 0.28.0 allows a user with the ability to create namespaces and to read and create ingress objects to overwrite the password file of another ingress which uses nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/auth-type: basic and which has a hyphenated namespace or secret name.
References
jordan@liggitt.nethttps://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/issues/5126Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/issues/5126Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
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Kubernetes ingress-nginx Version: unspecified   < 0.28.0
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