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.
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Tue, 11 Aug 2026 20:45:00 +0000
| Type | Values Removed | Values Added |
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| 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. | |
| Title | Malcolm Vulnerable to Authorization Bypass via URI Normalization Differential in Nginx Lua RBAC | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-863 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-08-11T20:30:57.901Z
Reserved: 2026-07-15T22:13:00.720Z
Link: CVE-2026-63177
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-08-11T21:17:44.443
Modified: 2026-08-11T21:17:44.443
Link: CVE-2026-63177
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Weaknesses
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CWE-863
Incorrect Authorization