CVE-2026-45692: Caddy: Remote Admin Authorization Bypass in `/config` API via Array Index Normalization
(updated )
A remote admin client certificate restricted to the following path:
/config/apps/http/servers/srv/routes/0
can still read and modify a different array element by requesting:
/config/apps/http/servers/srv/routes/01
This happens because:
- the authorization layer uses string prefix matching
- the /config traversal layer parses array indices numerically using strconv.Atoi()
So:
- authorization sees /…/01 as matching /…/0
- traversal resolves 01 to numeric index 1
- the request therefore targets routes[1], not routes[0]
This is not just a prefix-match quirk. It is an authorization-to-object mismatch.
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