CVE-2020-8553: Externally Controlled Reference to a Resource in Another Sphere

July 29, 2020 (updated August 4, 2020)

The Kubernetes ingress-nginx component 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.io/auth-type.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-8553

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