CVE-2026-24514 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Kubernetes Ingress-nginx
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 94.86%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedFeb 3
Latest updateFeb 5
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages2 packages
🔴Vulnerability Details
4OSV▶
ingress-nginx vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in k8s.io/ingress-nginx↗2026-02-05