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CVE-2026-84314: Nginx UI: Account Takeover via Missing `RequireSecureSession` on User Management Endpoint

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.7 v4.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-10-12 · updated 2026-10-13
• Weakness: CWE-285

Description

Nginx UI is a web user interface for the Nginx web server. Prior to 2.4.1, the POST /api/users/:id user-management endpoint permits an authenticated user to change another user's password without passing RequireSecureSession, even though the self-service password-change path requires that step-up. An attacker with an authenticated account can change the initial administrator's password, invalidate existing administrator tokens, and then authenticate as the administrator. This issue is fixed in version 2.4.1.

Affected products

• 0xJacky nginx-ui: before 2.4.1

References

• https://github.com/0xJacky/nginx-ui/commit/23d1934099b05b2a01589b48129dc3d3159d91c2
• https://github.com/0xJacky/nginx-ui/releases/tag/v2.4.1
• https://github.com/0xJacky/nginx-ui/security/advisories/GHSA-2gc7-j998-5xx6
• https://github.com/0xJacky/nginx-ui/security/advisories/GHSA-2gc7-j998-5xx6

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