diff --git a/charts/portal/Chart.yaml b/charts/portal/Chart.yaml
index 67eb4cd8..2340c532 100644
--- a/charts/portal/Chart.yaml
+++ b/charts/portal/Chart.yaml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ apiVersion: v2
 appVersion: "5.3"
 description: CA API Developer Portal
 name: portal
-version: 2.4.1
+version: 2.4.2
 type: application
 home: https://github.com/CAAPIM/apim-charts
 maintainers:
diff --git a/charts/portal/values-production.yaml b/charts/portal/values-production.yaml
index 755e148b..4ceb763d 100644
--- a/charts/portal/values-production.yaml
+++ b/charts/portal/values-production.yaml
@@ -911,6 +911,8 @@ ingress-nginx:
     config:
       # 30MB is the max file size we allow for the custom pages and 15MB for GW Bundle.so max is set to 32
       proxy-body-size: "32m"
+      # disable external access to nginx-status
+      nginx-status-ipv4-whitelist: ""
     publishService:
       enabled: true
     extraArgs:
diff --git a/charts/portal/values.yaml b/charts/portal/values.yaml
index a9198263..846816ef 100644
--- a/charts/portal/values.yaml
+++ b/charts/portal/values.yaml
@@ -766,6 +766,8 @@ ingress-nginx:
     config:
       # 30MB is the max file size we allow for the custom pages and 15MB for GW Bundle.so max is set to 32
       proxy-body-size: "32m"
+      # disable external access to nginx-status
+      nginx-status-ipv4-whitelist: ""
     publishService:
       enabled: true
     extraArgs: