High 7.5Published Sep 21, 2026

CVE-2026-61629nginx ignition has ParseAcceptLanguage `_` separator bypass that enables ~75x CPU amplification via Accept-Language header in i18nMiddleware

Updated under an hour ago (2026-10-19 11:10 UTC)

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nginx ignition is a user interface for the nginx web server. In versions 2.29.0 through 2.40.0, the gin i18n middleware in nginx-ignition's API server runs in front of every HTTP request and calls `golang.org/x/text/language.ParseAcceptLanguage` on the raw `Accept-Language` header without imposing any size or shape filter. The underlying parser has quadratic-time behaviour on long lists of malformed language tags. The CVE-2022-32149 guard that golang.org/x/text added in v0.3.8 caps the number of `-` characters in the input at 1000, but it does not cap `_` characters even though the parser's internal scanner aliases `_` to `-` before parsing. A single unauthenticated GET request with an `Accept-Language` header built out of `_` separators burns about 2.4 seconds of server CPU on the host running nginx-ignition; ten concurrent attackers saturate a ten-core box for the duration of the attack while consuming ~10 MiB/s of upstream bandwidth. Version 2.40.1 fixes this issue.

CVSS: 7.5 HIGH (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness (CWE): CWE-770
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: GitHub_M
NVD analysis: Awaiting Analysis
Record last updated: Sep 24, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

lucasdillmann nginx-ignition lucasdillmann:nginx_ignition (from the name)	from 2.29.0, < 2.40.1	CNA record

References

https://github.com/lucasdillmann/nginx-ignition/security/advisories/GHSA-jr34-h97m-9hpxx-refsource-confirm
https://github.com/lucasdillmann/nginx-ignition/commit/0c988fc1277c7d291725e8373313f8486fa1b31ax-refsource-misc
https://github.com/lucasdillmann/nginx-ignition/commit/cbaf0fc16ed873f7178a2ca9b0d00a696e44b485x-refsource-misc

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