NVD / CVE Program· CNA kubernetes

CVE-2023-5043: Ingress nginx annotation injection causes arbitrary command execution

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 36/100)

Public proof-of-concept code exists (GitHub); there is no record of exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 2.4% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 84.6% of all records.
Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
Fixed version: Kubernetes ingress-nginx 1.9.0.
Mentioned 1 time in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).

Low priority for now. Upgrade to Kubernetes ingress-nginx 1.9.0 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

Ingress nginx annotation injection causes arbitrary command execution.

HighCVSS 8.8 · v3.1—Proof of concept Fix available

Published: Oct 25, 2023
Updated: Jun 17, 2026
EPSS: 2.4% · 84th percentile
CWE: CWE-20

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Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 35 / 40 · 8.8 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 1 / 30 · 2.4%

CNA vs NVD score

NVD: 8.8
CNA · kubernetes: 7.6; 1.2 point gap

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L

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Vendor	Product	CPE
kubernetes	ingress-nginx	cpe:2.3:a:kubernetes:ingress-nginx

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

kubernetes ingress-nginxbefore 1.9.0

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (kubernetes). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

Kubernetes ingress-nginx
- 1.9.0unknown
- before 1.9.0affected · semver

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

Ecosystem	Package	Affected range	Fix
Go	k8s.io/ingress-nginx	before 1.9.0	1.9.0

Same product

kubernetes: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

CVE-2025-1974ingress-nginx admission controller RCE escalation
69This week
CVE-2025-1098ingress-nginx controller - configuration injection via unsanitized mirror annotations
61This week
CVE-2023-5044Code injection via nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/permanent-redirect annotation
53Plan

Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2021-25748May 24, 2023 · Ingress-nginx `path` sanitization can be bypassed with newline character
26Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2022-4886Oct 25, 2023 · Ingress-nginx `path` sanitization can be bypassed with `log_format` directive
26Monitor
Later →CVE-2024-7646Aug 16, 2024 · A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx where an actor with permission to create Ingress objects (in the `networking.k8s.io` or `ex
43Plan

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / package	Fixed version	Source
Kubernetes ingress-nginx	1.9.0	Vendor (CNA)
Go:k8s.io/ingress-nginx	1.9.0	Package registry (OSV)

Exploit status

Proof of concept available

A public proof of concept or detection signature exists. Exploit knowledge is out there; don't delay patching.

Evidence

Proof-of-concept repository on GitHub ×1

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Public exploit evidence
Source	Kind	Date
Proof-of-concept repository on GitHub	stars:0	2024-01-15

Research context

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Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

PublishedOct 25, 2023
First PoCJan 15, 2024+81 d
TodayNov 1, 2026+1103 d

No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).

Patch and commit links

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No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope