CVE-2023-5043

Description

### Issue Details A security issue was identified in ingress-nginx where the nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/configuration-snippet annotation on an Ingress object (in the networking.k8s.io or extensions API group) can be used to inject arbitrary commands, and obtain the credentials of the ingress-nginx controller. In the default configuration, that credential has access to all secrets in the cluster. This issue has been rated High (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L), and assigned CVE-2023-5043. ### Affected Components and Configurations This bug affects ingress-nginx. If you do not have ingress-nginx installed on your cluster, you are not affected. You can check this by running kubectl get po -n ingress-nginx. If you are running the “chrooted” ingress-nginx controller introduced in v1.2.0 (gcr.io/k8s-staging-ingress-nginx/controller-chroot), command execution is possible but credential extraction is not, so the High severity does not apply. Multi-tenant environments where non-admin users have permissions to create Ingress objects are most affected by this issue. #### Affected Versions <v1.9.0 #### Versions allowing mitigation v1.9.0 ### Mitigation Ingress Administrators should set the --enable-annotation-validation flag to enforce restrictions on the contents of ingress-nginx annotation fields. ### Detection If you find evidence that this vulnerability has been exploited, please contact security@kubernetes.io ### Additional Details See ingress-nginx Issue [#10571](https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/issues/10571) for more details. ### Acknowledgements This vulnerability was reported by suanve Thank You, CJ Cullen on behalf of the Kubernetes Security Response Committee

How to fix CVE-2023-5043

To remediate CVE-2023-5043, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

• —upgrade to 1.9.0 or later

Is CVE-2023-5043 being exploited?

Low — EPSS is 4.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.

Affected packages (1)