Ending the IngressNightmare: How SUSE Secures Your Kubernetes Clusters from External and Internal Threats
In March 2025, Wiz researchers disclosed a set of critical vulnerabilities in the popular ingress-nginx controller for Kubernetes. Collectively referred to as IngressNightmare, these issues (CVE-2025-1097, CVE-2025-1098, CVE-2025-24513, CVE-2025-24514, and CVE-2025-1974) allow unauthenticated attackers to exploit the Ingress admission controller, potentially achieving remote code execution or escalating privileges in the cluster.