25 Jun, 2026

F5 issues out-of-band patches for critical NGINX vulnerabilities

Cybersecurity company F5 has released out-of-band security updates to address multiple NGINX web server vulnerabilities, including two critical-severity flaws that could allow attackers to execute code on vulnerable systems. The two critical vulnerabilities were found in the ngx_http_v3_module (CVE-2026-42530) and the ngx_http_proxy_v2_module and ngx_http_grpc_module (CVE-2026-42055), and can be exploited by unauthenticated remote attackers to trigger […]

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18-year-old NGINX vulnerability allows DoS, potential RCE

An 18-year-old flaw in the NGINX open-source web server, discovered using an autonomous scanning system, can be exploited for denial of service and, under certain conditions, remote code execution. The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-42945 and received a critical severity rating of 9.2, based on the latest version of the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS). […]

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Critical Nginx UI auth bypass flaw now actively exploited in the wild

A critical vulnerability in Nginx UI with Model Context Protocol (MCP) support is now being exploited in the wild for full server takeover without authentication. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-33032, is caused by nginx-ui leaving the ‘/mcp_message’ endpoint unprotected, allowing remote attackers to invoke privileged MCP actions without credentials. Because those actions involve writing and […]

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Hackers compromise NGINX servers to redirect user traffic

A threat actor is compromising NGINX servers in a campaign that hijacks user traffic and reroutes it through the attacker’s backend infrastructure. NGINX is open-source software for web traffic management. It intermediates connections between users and servers and is employed for web serving, load balancing, caching, and reverse proxying. The malicious campaign, discovered by researchers at […]

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