Nginx Ui
CVE-2024-49366
HIGH
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V5 - File Handling Path canonicalization, traversal prevention
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 2 tactics: Discovery, Collection The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Impact | CVSS score of 7.7 (HIGH). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, low complexity, no privileges required, no user interaction not required. Public proof-of-concept exploit code is available. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A remote attacker could access files and directories outside the intended path by sending crafted requests to the affected application. No authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability. |
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Nginx UI is a web user interface for the Nginx web server. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.7), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.
RemediationAI
No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Validate and canonicalize file paths. Use chroot or sandboxing. Reject input containing path separators or '../' sequences.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
This vulnerability is classified as Path Traversal (CWE-22), which allows attackers to access files and directories outside the intended path. Nginx UI is a web user interface for the Nginx web server. Nginx UI v2.0.0-beta.35 and earlier gets the value from the json field without verification, and can construct a value value in the form of ../../. Arbitrary files can be written to the server, which may result in loss of permissions. Version 2.0.0-beta.26 fixes the issue. Affected products include: Nginxui Nginx Ui. Version information: Version 2.0.0.
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CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P
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CVSS VectorVendor: github
DescriptionCVE.org
Nginx UI is a web user interface for the Nginx web server. Nginx UI v2.0.0-beta.35 and earlier gets the value from the json field without verification, and can construct a value value in the form of ../../. Arbitrary files can be written to the server, which may result in loss of permissions. Version 2.0.0-beta.26 fixes the issue.
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Attack Technique
Path traversal exploits occur when applications use user-controlled input to construct file system paths without proper validation.
Affected Products (CPE)CVE.org
Nginx UI is a web user interface for the Nginx web server. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.9), this vulnerability is remotel
Unauthenticated backup download and RCE in Nginx UI before 2.3.3. EPSS 1.0%. PoC available.
Unauthenticated attackers who can reach a fresh, uninitialized Nginx UI instance before version 2.3.8 during its first-r
nginx-ui versions prior to 2.3.8 expose 40+ protected configuration fields through the GetSettings API to authenticated
nginx-ui prior to version 2.3.8 exposes sensitive configuration values including node.secret via an authenticated GET /a
Server-side request forgery in Nginx UI through 2.3.4 lets any authenticated user redirect API requests to an attacker-c
Unauthenticated bootstrap takeover in Nginx UI 2.3.5: any remote client that can reach a still-uninitialized instance du
Nginx-UI is a web interface to manage Nginx configurations. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is re
Authenticated administrators of Nginx UI releases 2.3.8 through 2.4.x can achieve remote code execution on the host by a
Remote code execution as root in nginx-ui versions before 2.3.8 via unauthenticated backup restore within 10-minute star
Configuration-validation bypass in Nginx UI (versions 2.0.0-rc.6 through 2.4.0) lets an authenticated low-privilege user
Nginx UI installations before 2.4.1 expose two account-security endpoints, POST /api/otp_enroll and POST /api/finish_pas
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