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CVE-2026-42055

CVSS 8.1 HIGHEPSS 76%CWE-122OTX 6 pulses

NGINX Plus and NGINX Open Source have a vulnerability in the ngx_http_proxy_v2_module and ngx_http_grpc_module modules. This vulnerability exists when the proxy_http_version to 2 or grpc_pass directives are used to proxy HTTP/2 traffic, the ignore_invalid_headers directive is set to off, and the large_client_header_buffers directive size is larger than 2 megabytes. A remote, unauthenticated attacker, along with conditions beyond their control, could send large headers while creating an upstream request. This may cause a heap-based buffer overflow in the NGINX worker process leading to a ...

Published 2026-06-17 · last modified 2026-06-18

details

CISA KEV status
Not in catalog
CVSS v3
8.1 / HIGH
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
76% percentile (score 0.0182)
CWE
CWE-122
OTX pulses
6 total, 0 recent

source mentions 3

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