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CVE-2020-8553

MEDIUM · CVSS 5.9 EPSS 0.89% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2020-07-29 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.9. It affects Nginx, Kubernetes. Public exploit code or proof-of-concept references have been detected in its references.

Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

GitHub PoC Links

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CVE
CVE-2020-8553
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5.9
EPSS
0.89%
Nginx Kubernetes

Original NVD Description

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.

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