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May 16, 2025 · Information Security

Critical Ingress‑NGINX RCE Vulnerability (CVE‑2025‑19742): Impact, Exploit Details, and Fixes

A severe security flaw in the ingress‑nginx controller (CVE‑2025‑19742) allows unauthenticated attackers to inject malicious NGINX configuration via the auth‑tls‑match‑cn annotation, leading to remote code execution, secret leakage, and potential full Kubernetes cluster takeover, with detailed remediation steps provided.