CVE-2024-23828: Nginx-UI authenticated RCE through injecting into the application config via CRLF

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2024-01-29 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-74

Description

Nginx-UI is a web interface to manage Nginx configurations. It is vulnerable to an authenticated arbitrary command execution via CRLF attack when changing the value of test_config_cmd or start_cmd. This vulnerability exists due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2024-22197 and CVE-2024-22198. This vulnerability has been patched in version 2.0.0.beta.12.

Affected products

0xJacky nginx-ui: before 2.0.0; 2.0.0-beta1, 2.0.0-beta10, 2.0.0-beta10_patch, 2.0.0-beta11, 2.0.0-beta2, 2.0.0-beta3 (+11) — fixed in 2.0.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: 0xJacky nginx-ui 2.0.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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