CVE-2026-63177 (GCVE-0-2026-63177)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-08-11 20:30
Modified
2026-08-12 22:12
CWE
  • CWE-863 - Incorrect Authorization
Summary
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.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
cisagov Malcolm Version: < 26.07.0
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