8.8
HIGH
CVE-2024-7646
"Ingress-Nginx Unsecured Command Injection and Credential Exposure"
Description

A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx where an actor with permission to create Ingress objects (in the `networking.k8s.io` or `extensions` API group) can bypass annotation validation 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.

INFO

Published Date :

Aug. 16, 2024, 6:15 p.m.

Last Modified :

Aug. 19, 2024, 1 p.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

5.9

Exploitability Score :

2.8
Public PoC/Exploit Available at Github

CVE-2024-7646 has a 4 public PoC/Exploit available at Github. Go to the Public Exploits tab to see the list.

Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2024-7646 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Kubernetes ingress-nginx
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information, practical solutions, and valuable tools related to CVE-2024-7646.

URL Resource
https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/pull/11719
https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/pull/11721
https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/126744
https://groups.google.com/g/kubernetes-security-announce/c/a1__cKjWkfA

We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).

PoC CVE-2024-7646

Updated: 1 month, 3 weeks ago
1 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Sept. 25, 2024, 11:13 a.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.

PoC CVE-2024-7646

Updated: 2 months, 3 weeks ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Aug. 29, 2024, 7:10 p.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.

poc for CVE-2024-7646

Updated: 3 months ago
1 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Aug. 17, 2024, 2:12 p.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.

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security cve exploit poc vulnerability

Updated: 2 months, 1 week ago
6375 stars 1107 fork 1107 watcher
Born at : Dec. 8, 2019, 1:03 p.m. This repo has been linked 904 different CVEs too.

Results are limited to the first 15 repositories due to potential performance issues.

The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2024-7646 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

  • Cybersecurity News
Cisco Issues Security Advisories: Critical Vulnerabilities Impact Multiple Products

Cisco Systems has released a series of urgent security advisories, revealing a total of nine vulnerabilities affecting various products, including Cisco IOS XR Software, Crosswork Network Services Orc ... Read more

Published Date: Sep 12, 2024 (2 months, 1 week ago)
  • Cybersecurity News
HAProxy Vulnerability CVE-2024-45506 Under Active Exploit: Urgent Patching Required

In the latest security advisory, HAProxy revealed that CVE-2024-45506, a vulnerability in its popular load balancing and proxy software, is now actively exploited. The vulnerability, which has a CVSS ... Read more

Published Date: Sep 09, 2024 (2 months, 1 week ago)
  • Cybersecurity News
CVE-2024-7988 (CVSS 9.8): Rockwell Automation’s ThinManager Flaw Allows RCE

Rockwell Automation has issued a critical security advisory concerning multiple vulnerabilities discovered in its ThinManager ThinServer software. These vulnerabilities, reported by Nicholas Zubrisky ... Read more

Published Date: Aug 28, 2024 (2 months, 3 weeks ago)
  • Cybersecurity News
Styx Stealer: The Evolved Threat to Your Crypto and Data

Recently, Check Point Research (CPR) discovered a new malware variant, Styx Stealer. Derived from the notorious Phemedrone Stealer, Styx was being sold via subscription with advanced capabilities such ... Read more

Published Date: Aug 22, 2024 (2 months, 4 weeks ago)
  • The Hacker News
Researchers Uncover TLS Bootstrap Attack on Azure Kubernetes Clusters

Vulnerability / Container Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a security flaw impacting Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Services that, if successfully exploited, could allow an attacker to es ... Read more

Published Date: Aug 20, 2024 (3 months ago)
  • Cyber Security News
New Kubernetes Vulnerability Allows Attackers to Access Clusters Remotely

A critical vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-7646, has been uncovered in the widely used ingress-nginx Kubernetes controller. The flaw allows attackers to bypass annotation validation, poses a signifi ... Read more

Published Date: Aug 19, 2024 (3 months ago)
  • Cybersecurity News
HookChain: The Technique That Bypass Exposes EDR in 94% of Security Solutions

Image Credit: M4v3r1ckIn an ever-evolving cybersecurity landscape, where threats are becoming more sophisticated by the day, the focus on Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) systems has never been m ... Read more

Published Date: Aug 19, 2024 (3 months ago)
  • Cybersecurity News
CVE-2024-7646: A Threat to Kubernetes Clusters Running ingress-nginx

A newly discovered security vulnerability, CVE-2024-7646, has been identified in the widely used ingress-nginx controller for Kubernetes, posing a severe threat to multi-tenant environments. With a CV ... Read more

Published Date: Aug 19, 2024 (3 months ago)

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2024-7646 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Received by [email protected]

    Aug. 16, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx where an actor with permission to create Ingress objects (in the `networking.k8s.io` or `extensions` API group) can bypass annotation validation 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.
    Added Reference Kubernetes https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/126744 [No types assigned]
    Added Reference Kubernetes https://groups.google.com/g/kubernetes-security-announce/c/a1__cKjWkfA [No types assigned]
    Added Reference Kubernetes https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/pull/11719 [No types assigned]
    Added Reference Kubernetes https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/pull/11721 [No types assigned]
    Added CWE Kubernetes CWE-20
    Added CVSS V3.1 Kubernetes AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

While CVE identifies specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2024-7646 is associated with the following CWEs:

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC) stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2024-7646 weaknesses.

CAPEC-3: Using Leading 'Ghost' Character Sequences to Bypass Input Filters Using Leading 'Ghost' Character Sequences to Bypass Input Filters CAPEC-7: Blind SQL Injection Blind SQL Injection CAPEC-8: Buffer Overflow in an API Call Buffer Overflow in an API Call CAPEC-9: Buffer Overflow in Local Command-Line Utilities Buffer Overflow in Local Command-Line Utilities CAPEC-10: Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables CAPEC-13: Subverting Environment Variable Values Subverting Environment Variable Values CAPEC-14: Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow CAPEC-22: Exploiting Trust in Client Exploiting Trust in Client CAPEC-23: File Content Injection File Content Injection CAPEC-24: Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow CAPEC-28: Fuzzing Fuzzing CAPEC-31: Accessing/Intercepting/Modifying HTTP Cookies Accessing/Intercepting/Modifying HTTP Cookies CAPEC-42: MIME Conversion MIME Conversion CAPEC-43: Exploiting Multiple Input Interpretation Layers Exploiting Multiple Input Interpretation Layers CAPEC-45: Buffer Overflow via Symbolic Links Buffer Overflow via Symbolic Links CAPEC-46: Overflow Variables and Tags Overflow Variables and Tags CAPEC-47: Buffer Overflow via Parameter Expansion Buffer Overflow via Parameter Expansion CAPEC-52: Embedding NULL Bytes Embedding NULL Bytes CAPEC-53: Postfix, Null Terminate, and Backslash Postfix, Null Terminate, and Backslash CAPEC-63: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) CAPEC-64: Using Slashes and URL Encoding Combined to Bypass Validation Logic Using Slashes and URL Encoding Combined to Bypass Validation Logic CAPEC-67: String Format Overflow in syslog() String Format Overflow in syslog() CAPEC-71: Using Unicode Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic Using Unicode Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic CAPEC-72: URL Encoding URL Encoding CAPEC-73: User-Controlled Filename User-Controlled Filename CAPEC-78: Using Escaped Slashes in Alternate Encoding Using Escaped Slashes in Alternate Encoding CAPEC-79: Using Slashes in Alternate Encoding Using Slashes in Alternate Encoding CAPEC-80: Using UTF-8 Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic Using UTF-8 Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic CAPEC-81: Web Server Logs Tampering Web Server Logs Tampering CAPEC-83: XPath Injection XPath Injection CAPEC-85: AJAX Footprinting AJAX Footprinting CAPEC-88: OS Command Injection OS Command Injection CAPEC-101: Server Side Include (SSI) Injection Server Side Include (SSI) Injection CAPEC-104: Cross Zone Scripting Cross Zone Scripting CAPEC-108: Command Line Execution through SQL Injection Command Line Execution through SQL Injection CAPEC-109: Object Relational Mapping Injection Object Relational Mapping Injection CAPEC-110: SQL Injection through SOAP Parameter Tampering SQL Injection through SOAP Parameter Tampering CAPEC-120: Double Encoding Double Encoding CAPEC-135: Format String Injection Format String Injection CAPEC-136: LDAP Injection LDAP Injection CAPEC-153: Input Data Manipulation Input Data Manipulation CAPEC-182: Flash Injection Flash Injection CAPEC-209: XSS Using MIME Type Mismatch XSS Using MIME Type Mismatch CAPEC-230: Serialized Data with Nested Payloads Serialized Data with Nested Payloads CAPEC-231: Oversized Serialized Data Payloads Oversized Serialized Data Payloads CAPEC-250: XML Injection XML Injection CAPEC-261: Fuzzing for garnering other adjacent user/sensitive data Fuzzing for garnering other adjacent user/sensitive data CAPEC-267: Leverage Alternate Encoding Leverage Alternate Encoding CAPEC-473: Signature Spoof Signature Spoof CAPEC-588: DOM-Based XSS DOM-Based XSS CAPEC-664: Server Side Request Forgery Server Side Request Forgery
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