ingress-nginx controller - auth secret file path traversal vulnerability

Open Source Vulnerabilities CVE-2025-24513

A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx where attacker-provided data are included in a filename by the ingress-nginx Admission Controller feature, resulting in directory traversal within the container. This could result in denial of service, or when combined with other vulnerabilities, limited disclosure of Secret objects from the cluster.

Open Source Vulnerabilities GHSA-242m-6h72-7hgp

A security issue was discovered in [ingress-nginx](https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx) where attacker-provided data are included in a filename by the ingress-nginx Admission Controller feature, resulting in directory traversal within the container. This could result in denial of service, or when combined with other vulnerabilities, limited disclosure of Secret objects from the cluster.

Open Source Vulnerabilities GO-2025-3564

ingress-nginx controller - auth secret file path traversal vulnerability in k8s.io/ingress-nginx. NOTE: The source advisory for this report contains additional versions that could not be automatically mapped to standard Go module versions. (If this is causing false-positive reports from vulnerability scanners, please suggest an edit to the report.) The additional affected modules and versions are: k8s.io/ingress-nginx before v1.11.5, from v1.12.0-beta.0 before v1.12.1.