GHSA-5wj4-wffq-3378 Ingress nginx annotation injection causes arbitrary command execution

• Go k8s.io/ingress-nginx: < 1.9.0 → fixed in 1.9.0

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 [email protected] Additional Details See ingress-nginx Issue #10571 for more details. Acknowledgements This vulnerability was reported by suanve Thank You, CJ Cullen on behalf of the Kubernetes Security Response Committee