CVE-2024-23828: Nginx-UI vulnerable to authenticated RCE through injecting into the application config via CRLF

January 29, 2024 (updated July 6, 2026)

Fix bypass to the following bugs

https://github.com/0xJacky/nginx-ui/security/advisories/GHSA-pxmr-q2x3-9x9m
https://github.com/0xJacky/nginx-ui/security/advisories/GHSA-8r25-68wm-jw35

Allowing to inject directly in the app.ini via CRLF to change the value of test_config_cmd and start_cmd resulting in an Authenticated RCE

References

github.com/0xJacky/nginx-ui/commit/d70e37c8575e25b3da7203ff06da5e16c77a42d1
github.com/0xJacky/nginx-ui/security/advisories/GHSA-qcjq-7f7v-pvc8
github.com/advisories/GHSA-qcjq-7f7v-pvc8
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-23828
pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2024-2480

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