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01 Record

CVE-2023-5043

Ingress nginx annotation injection causes arbitrary command execution

HighPUBLISHEDCNA: kubernetes
CNA base score7.6 CVSS v3.xCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L

02 Description

Ingress nginx annotation injection causes arbitrary command execution

03 Exploitation and scoring

Exploitation
Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
SSVC decision
Not assessed by CISA
EPSS probability
2.63% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS percentile
Equal to or higher than the score of 85.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
NVD base score
8.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
NVD CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD analysis status
Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
Red Hat severity
No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

04 Metadata

Published
2023-10-25 19:18Z3 YR AGO
Last updated
2025-02-13 17:19Z1 YR AGO
Reserved
2023-09-18
Assigning CNA
kubernetes
Record state
PUBLISHED
Severity
High (CVSS 7.6)
CNA CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L
Weaknesses
  • CWE-20Improper Input ValidationClass
  • CWE-74Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')Class
Data version
5.1
Document digest
e5af7a83f242ced1ed9860da6f886734579001eb7daf98c9a27309c9f137b8f1

05 Affected products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
Kubernetesingress-nginx0 to < 1.9.0—

06 References