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CVE-2023-5043
Ingress nginx annotation injection causes arbitrary command execution
High7.6EPSS 2.5%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- kubernetes
Description
Ingress nginx annotation injection causes arbitrary command execution.
Timeline
ID reserved
By kubernetes
- 37 days later
· 37 days later
Published
- 16 months later
· 16 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| kubernetesCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.5% · top 15% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.6.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected < 1.9.0
- unknown 1.9.0
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gok8s.io/ingress-nginxGHSA-5wj4-wffq-3378 (opens in a new tab)
References (4)
- https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/issues/10571 (opens in a new tab)issue-trackingx_transferred
- https://groups.google.com/g/kubernetes-security-announce/c/pVsXsOpxYZo (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/25/4 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240307-0012/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-5wj4-wffq-3378 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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