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Because the RBAC check never percent-decodes its input, an authenticated low-privilege user can request an admin-only path using percent-encoding (e.g. /%68tadmin.php) and have nginx route it to the restricted location while the Lua RBAC gate evaluating the un-decoded raw string finds no matching restriction and grants access.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":5.4,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-12","score":0.00213,"percentile":0.11687,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-863"],"published":"2026-10-08T17:32:00Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:30:44Z","products":[{"vendor":"cisa","product":"malcolm"},{"vendor":"cisagov","product":"malcolm"}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/cisagov/Malcolm/security/advisories/GHSA-jr6p-63pg-hr6g","tags":["exploit","advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/cisagov/CSAF/blob/develop/csaf_files/OT/white/2026/icsa-26-280-01.json","tags":["government-resource","web"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-107334","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rgrh-q687-4gc8"},{"url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/107xxx/CVE-2026-107334.json","tags":["advisory"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2026-107334","title":"Incorrect Authorization in Malcolm","description":"Malcolm's nginx Lua role-based access control (RBAC) layer decides whether an authenticated user may reach a role-restricted path (e.g. /htadmin, /auth, /admin_login, /arkime/api/esadmin, NetBox, upload endpoints) by pattern-matching the raw, percent-encoded request URI. Nginx itself, however, selects which location block actually serves the request using the percent-decoded, normalized URI. Because the RBAC check never percent-decodes its input, an authenticated low-privilege user can request an admin-only path using percent-encoding (e.g. /%68tadmin.php) and have nginx route it to the restricted location while the Lua RBAC gate evaluating the un-decoded raw string finds no matching restriction and grants access.","status":"published","published":"2026-10-08T17:32:00.48Z","modified":"2026-10-14T19:35:58.181Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":5.4,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"cna"}],"cwes":["CWE-863"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T13:45:25.313702Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2026-95127","description":"Malcolm's nginx Lua role-based access control (RBAC) layer decides whether an authenticated user may reach a role-restricted path (e.g. /htadmin, /auth, /admin_login, /arkime/api/esadmin, NetBox, upload endpoints) by pattern-matching the raw, percent-encoded request URI. Nginx itself, however, selects which location block actually serves the request using the percent-decoded, normalized URI. Because the RBAC check never percent-decodes its input, an authenticated low-privilege user can request an admin-only path using percent-encoding (e.g. /%68tadmin.php) and have nginx route it to the restricted location while the Lua RBAC gate evaluating the un-decoded raw string finds no matching restriction and grants access.","status":"published","published":"2026-10-08T17:32:00Z","modified":"2026-10-14T19:35:58Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":5.4,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"medium"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T17:27:12.80866Z"}],"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-rgrh-q687-4gc8","title":"Malcolm's nginx Lua role-based access control (RBAC) layer decides whether an authenticated user...","description":"Malcolm's nginx Lua role-based access control (RBAC) layer decides whether an authenticated user may reach a role-restricted path (e.g. /htadmin, /auth, /admin_login, /arkime/api/esadmin, NetBox, upload endpoints) by pattern-matching the raw, percent-encoded request URI. Nginx itself, however, selects which location block actually serves the request using the percent-decoded, normalized URI. Because the RBAC check never percent-decodes its input, an authenticated low-privilege user can request an admin-only path using percent-encoding (e.g. /%68tadmin.php) and have nginx route it to the restricted location while the Lua RBAC gate evaluating the un-decoded raw string finds no matching restriction and grants access.","status":"published","published":"2026-10-08T18:32:29Z","modified":"2026-10-08T18:32:39Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":5.4,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"medium"}],"cwes":["CWE-863"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:12:57.86261Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2026-107334","description":"Malcolm's nginx Lua role-based access control (RBAC) layer decides whether an authenticated user may reach a role-restricted path (e.g. /htadmin, /auth, /admin_login, /arkime/api/esadmin, NetBox, upload endpoints) by pattern-matching the raw, percent-encoded request URI. Nginx itself, however, selects which location block actually serves the request using the percent-decoded, normalized URI. Because the RBAC check never percent-decodes its input, an authenticated low-privilege user can request an admin-only path using percent-encoding (e.g. /%68tadmin.php) and have nginx route it to the restricted location while the Lua RBAC gate evaluating the un-decoded raw string finds no matching restriction and grants access.","status":"published","published":"2026-10-08T18:17:19.763Z","modified":"2026-10-08T21:03:43.847Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":5.4,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"secondary"}],"cwes":["CWE-863"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:12:55.142936Z"}],"osv":[{"id":"CVE-2026-107334","title":"Incorrect Authorization in Malcolm","description":"Malcolm's nginx Lua role-based access control (RBAC) layer decides whether an authenticated user may reach a role-restricted path (e.g. /htadmin, /auth, /admin_login, /arkime/api/esadmin, NetBox, upload endpoints) by pattern-matching the raw, percent-encoded request URI. Nginx itself, however, selects which location block actually serves the request using the percent-decoded, normalized URI. Because the RBAC check never percent-decodes its input, an authenticated low-privilege user can request an admin-only path using percent-encoding (e.g. /%68tadmin.php) and have nginx route it to the restricted location while the Lua RBAC gate evaluating the un-decoded raw string finds no matching restriction and grants access.","status":"published","published":"2026-10-08T17:32:00.48Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:30:44.710050736Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":5.4,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"medium"}],"cwes":["CWE-863"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:44:54.933106Z"}]}}