ingress-nginx auth-url protection bypass (Kubernetes ingress-nginx)

CVE-2026-24513
LOW 3.1

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.34 % · percentile 27 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
kubernetes
NVD status
Deferred

Description

A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx where the protection afforded by the `auth-url` Ingress annotation may not be effective in the presence of a specific misconfiguration. If the ingress-nginx controller is configured with a default custom-errors configuration that includes HTTP errors 401 or 403, and if the configured default custom-errors backend is defective and fails to respect the X-Code HTTP header, then an Ingress with the `auth-url` annotation may be accessed even when authentication fails. Note that the built-in custom-errors backend works correctly. To trigger this issue requires an administrator to specifically configure ingress-nginx with a broken external component.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-754 — Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1LOW 3.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:Nkubernetes
CVSS 3.1LOW 3.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:NNVD · jordan@liggitt.net (Secondary)

Advisories

European references

Affected products

ProductVersions
Kubernetes · ingress-nginxaffected 0 < 1.13.7 ; affected 0 < 1.14.3

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD