Vulnerability in nginx-gateway (CVE-2026-27651)
Summary
Vulnerability in nginx-gateway (CVE-2026-27651). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 1.28.3, 1.29.7 or later.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
When the ngx_mail_auth_http_module module is enabled on NGINX Plus or NGINX Open Source, undisclosed requests can cause worker processes to terminate. This issue may occur when (1) CRAM-MD5 or APOP authentication is enabled, and (2) the authentication server permits retry by returning the Auth-Wait response header. Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.
Source: GitHub Security Advisories (Global) NVD GitHub Advisory
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-27651 has been found in nginx-gateway.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. CVSS score: 7.5/10.
What to do: upgrade nginx-gateway to 1.28.3, 1.29.7 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "nginx-gateway CVE-2026-27651" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2026-27651 (nginx-gateway) — CWE-476 / CVSS v3 7.5
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / unauthenticated / no user interaction
Patched: 1.28.3, 1.29.7 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (CWE-476) exists in nginx-gateway.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of nginx-gateway.
Severity: High (CVSS 7.5/10). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to 1.28.3, 1.29.7.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'nginx-gateway' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'nginx-gateway' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
nginx-gatewayを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Apply patch patch
Upgrade nginx-gateway to 1.28.3, 1.29.7ステージング環境で 1.28.3, 1.29.7 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
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3Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Affected packages
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Alpine Linux ALPINE-CVE-2026-27651 nginx Fixed in: 1.28.3-r0
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2026-27651 nginx Fixed in: 1.18.0-6.1+deb11u6
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2026-27651 nginx Fixed in: 1.4.6-1ubuntu3.9+esm6
References
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