CVE-2025-14727 NGINX Ingress Controller vulnerability
Attackers can exploit improper validation in the rewrite-target annotation to perform path traversal, potentially accessing or modifying unintended files.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-14727?
CVE-2025-14727 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in F5 NGINX Ingress Controller, published on 17 Dec 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
A vulnerability exists in NGINX Ingress Controller's nginx.org/rewrite-target annotation validation.
Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.
Weakness: CWE-22
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-14727?
It affects 1 product.
Products include F5 Nginx Ingress Controller.
How do I fix CVE-2025-14727?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-14727 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.
Is CVE-2025-14727 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-14727 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in F5 NGINX Ingress Controller
- CVE-2026-55723 NGINX Ingress Controller vulnerability
- CVE-2026-52865 NGINX Ingress Controller vulnerability
- CVE-2022-41743 NGINX ngx_http_hls_module vulnerability CVE-2022-41743
- CVE-2022-30535 NGINX Ingress Controller vulnerability CVE-2022-30535
- CVE-2021-23055 Security feature bypass in NGINX Ingress Controller
Sources
Also known as GHSA-qgv6-hgqv-p7cj.