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CVE-2020-8553

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-8553 affects Kubernetes ingress-nginx versions prior to 0.28.0, allowing an authenticated user with specific permissions to overwrite password files of other ingresses under certain conditions. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 5.9 (Medium), indicating a network-based attack with high complexity and high impact on confidentiality and integrity, but no impact on availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 0.28.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:kubernetes:ingress-nginx:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.9MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
0.7
Impact Score
5.2
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.89%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
55.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0089 is in the 73rd percentile among its peer group of 687 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.2 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (5)

check_pointpatch availablevia llm_extracted
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chromepatch availablevia llm_extracted
View patch
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: k8s.io/ingress-nginxFixed in: 0.28.0
infiniflowpatch availablevia llm_extracted
View patch
vuepatch availablevia llm_extracted
View patch

Vendor Advisories (5)

goGHSA-hhpm-74pm-hf35medium

ingress-nginx component for Kubernetes allows file overwrite

May 24, 2022
vuellm-vue-0cf39c88fc439d81

ingress-nginx auth-type basic annotation vulnerability

chromellm-chrome-66692f6a2c2a6259

ingress-nginx auth-type basic annotation vulnerability

check_pointllm-check_point-8e2b8355f196c42e

ingress-nginx auth-type basic annotation vulnerability

infiniflowllm-infiniflow-2c82f1bcc7faaefb

ingress-nginx auth-type basic annotation vulnerability

References

github.com / kubernetes/ingress-nginx/issues/5126
Third Party Advisory