CVE-2026-19670Incorrect Authorization in CISA Malcolm
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Malcolm's nginx Lua role-based access control (RBAC) layer decides whether an authenticated user may reach a role-restricted path (e.g. /htadmin, /auth, /admin_login, /arkime/api/esadmin, NetBox, upload endpoints) by pattern-matching the raw, percent-encoded request URI. Nginx itself, however, selects which location block actually serves the request using the percent-decoded, normalized URI. Because the RBAC check never percent-decodes its input, an authenticated low-privilege user can request an admin-only path using percent-encoding (e.g. /%68tadmin.php) and have nginx route it to the restricted location while the Lua RBAC gate evaluating the un-decoded raw string finds no matching restriction and grants access.
- CVSS
- 5.4 MEDIUM (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-863
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- icscert
- NVD analysis
- Awaiting Analysis
- Record last updated
- Aug 18, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
CISAgov Malcolm cisagov:malcolm (from the name) | through 26.07.1 | CNA record |
References
- https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-26-230-01government-resource
- https://github.com/cisagov/Malcolm/security/advisories/GHSA-f2v6-8cj4-mhr6
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