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18-Year-Old NGINX Rewrite Module Flaw Enables Unauthenticated RCE

Eighteen-year latent NGINX vulnerability demonstrates technical debt risk in European web infrastructure requiring immediate reverse proxy security audits.

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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed multiple security vulnerabilities impacting NGINX Plus and NGINX Open, including a critical flaw that remained undetected for 18 years. The vulnerability, discovered by depthfirst, is a heap buffer overflow issue impacting ngx_http_rewrite_module (CVE-2026-42945, CVSS v4 score: 9.2) that could allow an attacker to achieve remote code execution or cause a

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