Improper input validation in roxy-wi
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Code execution
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-78.
Summary
Roxy-WI is a web interface for managing Haproxy, Nginx, Apache and Keepalived servers. In versions 8.2.6.4 and prior, POST /waf/<service>/<server_ip>/rule/<rule_id>/save accepts a config_file_name form field that is passed straight through to config_mod.master_slave_upload_and_restart(...) as the destination path. The validation chain (_replace_config_path_to_correct → check_is_conf) only requires the path to contain a hard-coded service substring (nginx/haproxy/apache2/httpd/keepalived) and the substring conf or cfg, and to not contain ... The encoded-slash substitution 92 → / is applied before the substring check, so the attacker can build any absolute path anywhere on the LB filesystem as long as it satisfies those substring constraints. The body of the WAF rule (config form field) is written verbatim to that path. By choosing a filename like 92etc92cron.d92nginx_cfg_evil (resolving to /etc/cron.d/nginx_cfg_evil), an attacker drops a cron entry on the load balancer with attacker-controlled content. Cron parses the file on its next scan, executing the embedded job as root — full RCE on every load balancer the caller's group manages. At time of publication, there are no publicly available patches.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-45556
More roxy-wi vulnerabilities
- TI-2022-13181 Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in Roxy-WI CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 10.0
- TI-2022-13170 Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in Roxy-wi CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 10.0
- TI-2026-25520 Roxy-WI has SQL Injection in haproxy_section_save Endpoint via Unsanitized server_ip Parameter CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.9
- TI-2026-25518 Roxy-WI vulnerable to path traversal and arbitrary file writing CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.9
- TI-2026-33307 Roxy-WI: Authenticated RCE on every managed HAProxy load balancer via `option` field config injection in section save CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.9
- TI-2026-33301 Roxy-WI: Cross-tenant authorization bypass on /install/* — guest can run Ansible / SSH on every registered server CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.9
Sources
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