CVE-2024-49368: Unchecked logrotate settings lead to arbitrary command execution

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 27.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2024-10-21 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Nginx UI is a web user interface for the Nginx web server. Prior to version 2.0.0-beta.36, when Nginx UI configures logrotate, it does not verify the input and directly passes it to exec.Command, causing arbitrary command execution. Version 2.0.0-beta.36 fixes this issue.

Affected products

0xJacky nginx-ui: through 1.9.9-4; 2.0.0-beta1, 2.0.0-beta10, 2.0.0-beta10_patch, 2.0.0-beta11, 2.0.0-beta12, 2.0.0-beta13 (+42)

References

https://github.com/0xJacky/nginx-ui/releases/tag/v2.0.0-beta.36
https://github.com/0xJacky/nginx-ui/security/advisories/GHSA-66m6-27r9-77vm

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