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CVE

CVE-2026-45556

Roxy-WI: Authenticated arbitrary file write on every managed load balancer (and downstream RCE) via WAF rule save `config_file_name`
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CVE

CVE-2026-45556

Roxy-WI: Authenticated arbitrary file write on every managed load balancer (and downstream RCE) via WAF rule save `config_file_name`

Roxy-WI is a web interface for managing Haproxy, Nginx, Apache and Keepalived servers. In versions 8.2.6.4 and prior, POST /waf/<service>/<serverip>/rule/<ruleid>/save accepts a configfilename form field that is passed straight through to configmod.masterslaveuploadandrestart(...) as the destination path. The validation chain (replaceconfigpathtocorrect → checkisconf) only requires the path to contain a hard-coded service substring (nginx/haproxy/apache2/httpd/keepalived) and the substring conf or cfg, and to not contain ... The encoded-slash substitution 92 → / is applied before the substring check, so the attacker can build any absolute path anywhere on the LB filesystem as long as it satisfies those substring constraints. The body of the WAF rule (config form field) is written verbatim to that path. By choosing a filename like 92etc92cron.d92nginxcfgevil (resolving to /etc/cron.d/nginxcfgevil), an attacker drops a cron entry on the load balancer with attacker-controlled content. Cron parses the file on its next scan, executing the embedded job as root — full RCE on every load balancer the caller's group manages. At time of publication, there are no publicly available patches.

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CVSS Version

Severity
Base Score
CVSS Version
Score Vector
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H
U
9.9
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3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
C
H
U
0
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3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
C
H
U
-

Related Resources

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References

https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/45xxx/CVE-2026-45556.json, https://github.com/roxy-wi/roxy-wi/security/advisories/GHSA-85gm-773v-x7m4, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-45556

Severity

9.9

CVSS Score
0
10

Basic Information

Base CVSS
9.9
EPSS Probability
0.00372%
EPSS Percentile
0.30623%
Introduced Version
0
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