CVE-2023-5043
HighPublished
Ingress nginx annotation injection causes arbitrary command execution
- Published
- Oct 25, 2023
- Updated
- Feb 13, 2025
- Assigning CNA
- kubernetes
- Evidence observed
- Aug 25, 2026
Primary CVSS
8.8/ 10High
nvd · CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H2.2%
Low · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 81.8%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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Summary
Ingress nginx annotation injection causes arbitrary command execution.
Sources
1Proof-of-concept exploit for CVE-2023-5043, demonstrating arbitrary command execution via Ingress NGINX annotation injection in Kubernetes, with a curl-based RCE trigger.
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