CVE-2026-63177
HIGH
MEDIUM
Priority: 0.03
BB Relevance:
64/100
Published: 2026-08-11
Modified: 2026-10-24
First seen: 2026-10-29
Status: active
Attack Surface
Network
Low Complexity
No Interaction
Conf. Impact
CVSS Vector Breakdown
AV:
Network
AC:
Low
PR:
Low
UI:
None
S:
X
AT:
None
VC:
High
VI:
Low
VA:
None
Description
Malcolm is a network traffic analysis tool suite. Prior to version 26.07.0, role-based access control enforced in the Nginx OpenResty Lua layer evaluates the raw, unnormalized `ngx.var.request_uri`, while Nginx itself routes requests using the normalized path. An authenticated low-privilege user can prepend a traversal segment (for example `/x/../upload/...`) so that Nginx routes the request to a restricted backend while the Lua role check fails to match any rule and falls open, granting access it should deny. Version 26.07.0 fixes the issue.