CVE-2026-42934

Updated on 13 May 2026

Severity

4.8 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
4.8
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L

Overview

About vulnerability

NGINX Plus and NGINX Open Source have a vulnerability in the ngx_http_charset_module module. When charset, source_charset, and charset_map and proxy_pass with disabled buffering (“off”) directives are configured, unauthenticated attackers can send requests that with conditions beyond the attackers’ control to cause a heap buffer over-read in the NGINX worker process, leading to limited disclosure of memory or a restart.

Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.

Details

Affected packages:
nginx @ 1.26 (+22 more)

NGINX Plus and NGINX Open Source have a vulnerability in the ngx_http_charset_module module. When charset, source_charset, and charset_map and proxy_pass with disabled buffering (“off”) directives are configured, unauthenticated attackers can send requests that with conditions beyond the attackers’ control to cause a heap buffer over-read in the NGINX worker process, leading to limited disclosure of memory or a restart.

Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.

Fixes