Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

Patch Urgency Increases as Code to Exploit CVE-2025-1974 Vulnerability PublishedScans reveal that thousands of Kubernetes clusters' Ingress Nginx Controller software remain internet-exposed, which experts said is bad practice. More importantly, the software needs updating to fix a critical vulnerability that can be remotely exploited to seize complete control of a cluster.

Immediate Patching Urged to Address Flaws in Widely Used Ingress Nginx ControllerCritical vulnerabilities in Ingress Nginx Controller - a widely used component of the popular Kubernetes container management system - need immediate patching to prevent attackers from taking control of cloud-based applications, management interfaces and more, researchers warned.

SYSTEM-level command injection via API parameter *chef's kiss* A now-fixed command-injection bug in Kubernetes can be exploited by a remote attacker to gain code execution with SYSTEM privileges on all Windows endpoints in a cluster, and thus fully take over those systems, according to Akamai researcher Tomer Peled.…

Details have been made public about a now-patched high-severity flaw in Kubernetes that could allow a malicious attacker to achieve remote code execution with elevated privileges under specific circumstances

Attackers can remotely execute code with system privileges by exploiting a vulnerability in the source code of the open source container management system.

All Windows endpoints within a vulnerable Kubernetes cluster are open to command injection attacks, new research finds.