CVE-2020-8553

mediumpriority · track · 24EPSS 0.009 · 59 %ileEURUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.89% (59th) EPSS

CVSS 4.9 · medium

Is it mine?

4 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

The Kubernetes ingress-nginx component prior to version 0.28.0 allows a user with the ability to create namespaces and to read and create ingress objects to overwrite the password file of another ingress which uses nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/auth-type: basic and which has a hyphenated namespace or secret name.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

5.9

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.04.9mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 6.8 · impact 4.9

v3.15.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 0.7 · impact 5.2

v3.15.9mediumAV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Nsecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU

v3.15.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Nsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.15.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Nsecondary · jordan@liggitt.netexploitability 0.7 · impact 5.2

v3.15.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Nsecondary · OSV

v3.15.4mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-610USprimaryCWE-610USCWE-610USCWE-73USCWE-73USCWE-73US

affected products (4)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Kubernetes ingress-nginxunspecified → 0.28.0enisa_euvdEU
The Kubernetes Authors ingress-nginx≤ 0.28.0fstec_bduRU
kubernetes ingress-nginx< 0.28.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:kubernetes:ingress-nginx:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Go k8s.io/ingress-nginx< 0.28.0osvUSpkg:golang/k8s.io/ingress-nginx

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-hhpm-74pm-hf35ingress-nginx component for Kubernetes allows file overwrite2022-05-24ghsa · osvUS
The Kubernetes ingress-nginx component prior to version 0.28.0 allows a user with the ability to create namespaces and to read and create ingress objects to overwrite the password file of another ingress which uses nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/auth-type: basic and which has a hyphenated namespace or secret name.

also known as (4)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd fstec_bdu nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2020-07-29modified 2026-06-17

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references (10)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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