18-Year-Old NGINX Rewrite Module Flaw Enables Unauthenticated RCE
2026-05-14T07:24:07Z•1806f9ccfc0f268b2534acf5bf12a4137c0ffcf9975a051555f1685de2fe5fa9
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What happened
Multiple high-severity vulnerabilities and active incidents reported across web, mail, hosting, AI tooling, and software supply chains. Notable issues include an 18-year-old heap buffer overflow in NGINX rewrite module enabling unauthenticated RCE (CVE-2026-42945, CVSS 9.2); a critical Exim BDAT memory-corruption/possible code-execution flaw (CVE-2026-45185, 9.8); an Ollama out-of-bounds read allowing remote process memory leakage (CVE-2026-7482, 9.1); active exploitation of a critical cPanel/WHM auth-bypass used to deploy a backdoor (CVE-2026-41940), plus additional cPanel fixes (e.g., CVE--
Why it matters
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Evidence and limitations
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- the_hacker_news
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- 1806f9ccfc0f268b2534acf5bf12a4137c0ffcf9975a051555f1685de2fe5fa9
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- 2026-05-14T07:24:07Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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