CVE-2026-77180

High

Description

When NGINX Ingress Controller is configured with Ingress annotations, an injection vulnerability exists in the configuration generator of NGINX Ingress Controller. Multiple user-controllable fields are written into the generated NGINX configuration without sanitization. An authenticated attacker with permission to create or modify these annotations may craft values that inject arbitrary NGINX configuration directives. Impact: An authenticated attacker granted write access to NGINX Ingress Controller Ingress annotations through the Kubernetes API may be able to inject arbitrary NGINX configuration directives, create or delete files, or disable services. There is no data plane exposure; this is a control plane issue only. Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.

SeverityHigh
CVSS8.3
Exploit probability43. percentile0.5%
ProductNGINX Ingress Controller
PublishedSep 2, 2026
First seenSep 2, 2026
Weakness typeCWE-76CWE-76

How to fix

Update
  • F5 NGINX Ingress Controller5.6.0, 2026-lts-r5 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
F5 NGINX Ingress Controller5.0.0 ≤ v < 5.6.0, 2026-lts-r1 ≤ v < 2026-lts-r55.6.0, 2026-lts-r5

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