CVE-2026-24514: Kubernetes Ingress-Nginx

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Kubernetes Ingress-Nginx: before 1.13.7 (fixed in 1.13.7); before 1.14.3 (fixed in 1.14.3)

Published 2026-02-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.