What is CVE-2020-8553?

CVE-2020-8553 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Kubernetes Ingress-nginx, classified under External Control of File Name or Path. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2020-07-29.

How severe is CVE-2020-8553?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Kubernetes Ingress-nginx

CVE-2020-8553

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…

EPSS: 0.005 (67.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N.

Affected products

Kubernetes Ingress-nginx — versions unspecified

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-73 — External Control of File Name or Path

References

github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/issues/5126 (x_refsource_CONFIRM)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-8553?: CVE-2020-8553 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Kubernetes Ingress-nginx, classified under External Control of File Name or Path. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2020-07-29.
How severe is CVE-2020-8553?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.