CVE-2026-63177

High

Description

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.

SeverityHigh
CVSS7.1
Exploit probability—
ProductMalcolm
PublishedAug 11, 2026
First seenAug 11, 2026

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

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ProductAffected versionsFixed in
cisagov Malcolm< 26.07.0—

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