Critical NGINX Vulnerability Can Crash Workers and May Allow Remote Code Execution

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  • Original (extern): Link oeffnen
  • Veroeffentlicht: 2026-07-19 20:42 UTC
  • Importiert: 2026-07-24 12:59 UTC
  • CVSS: 9.2
  • Quelle-ID: thn_global
  • uid_hash: 8a2134bc6853ee0399d94f60e0555580f64eb435ee7f1b13bec2f6191576dff5

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F5 has shipped fixes for a critical nginx flaw that lets a remote, unauthenticated attacker trigger a heap buffer overflow in the worker process with crafted HTTP requests. CVE-2026-42533 was patched on July 15 in nginx 1.30.4 (stable) and 1.31.3 (mainline), and in NGINX Plus 37.0.3.1; anyone on an earlier build should upgrade.

Triggering it can crash or restart the worker, causing a denial of

Verknuepfte CVEs

CVE-ID Severity (Quelle) CVSS (Quelle) Severity (CVE.org) CVSS (CVE.org) EPSS EPSS-Pctl Veroeffentlicht (CVE.org)

CVE-2026-42533

CRITICAL

9.2

CRITICAL

9.2

2026-07-15

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