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Moderate severityNVD Advisory· Published Jul 29, 2020· Updated Aug 4, 2024

Kubernetes ingress-nginx Compromise of auth via subset/superset namespace names

CVE-2020-8553

Description

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.

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Affected packages

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PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
k8s.io/ingress-nginxGo
< 0.28.00.28.0

Affected products

17

Patches

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