Vulnerability · Published Jul 15, 2026 · Assigned by f5

CVE-2026-52865NGINX Ingress Controller vulnerability

Medium 6.5

In plain English

A medium-severity null pointer dereference in NGINX Ingress Controller from F5. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.5% (higher than 43% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.5Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.5%top 56.9% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

When NGINX Ingress Controller processes Ingress or TransportServer resources, an authenticated, remote attacker with permission to create or modify Ingress or TransportServer resources can cause the NGINX Ingress Controller process to terminate. Impact: The NGINX Ingress Controller control plane process terminates and enters a persistent crash loop while the malformed Ingress or TransportServer resource remains in the cluster. This vulnerability allows a remote, authenticated attacker with at least Ingress or TransportServer resource write access to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) on the NGINX Ingress Controller system. There is no data plane exposure; this is a control plane issue only. Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
F5	NGINX Ingress Controller	5.0.0 – before 5.5.22026-lts-r1 – before 2026-lts-r3

Weakness: CWE-476 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K000161834 vendor-advisory, patch