Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

18-Year-Old NGINX Rewrite Module Flaw Enables Unauthenticated RCE

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18-Year-Old NGINX Rewrite Module Flaw Enables Unauthenticated RCE

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Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

NGINX Rift CVE-2026-42945 scores 9.2 after 18 years, enabling unauthenticated RCE or DoS via crafted HTTP requests.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/46851448

Affected an non-affected versions https://nginx.org/en/security_advisories.html
CVE details https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-42945
PoC https://github.com/DepthFirstDisclosures/Nginx-Rift

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Probably yeah https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-42945

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