Vulnerability CVE-2020-8553


Published: 2020-07-29

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.

Type:

CWE-610

(Externally Controlled Reference to a Resource in Another Sphere)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.9/10
4.9/10
6.8/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
Single time
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
None
Affected software
Kubernetes -> Ingress-nginx 

 References:
https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/issues/5126

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