On March 24, 2025, Wiz Research disclosed a set of critical Remote Code Execution vulnerabilities in the Ingress-NGINX Controller for Kubernetes. The vulnerabilities CVE-2025-1097, CVE-2025-1098, CVE-2025-24514, and CVE-2025-1974 can be exploited to gain full cluster access, resulting in a complete compromise of the environment.
The vulnerabilities affect a widely used component in Kubernetes environments responsible for routing external traffic to internal services. Clusters with publicly exposed admission webhooks are at immediate risk.