Medium severity · published Oct 8, 2026
CVE-2026-107334
Incorrect Authorization in Malcolm
5.4
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Malcolm's nginx Lua role-based access control (RBAC) layer decides whether an authenticated user may reach a role-restricted path (e.g. /htadmin, /auth, /admin_login, /arkime/api/esadmin, NetBox, upload endpoints) by pattern-matching the raw, percent-encoded request URI. Nginx itself, however, selects which location block actually serves the request using the percent-decoded, normalized URI. Because the RBAC check never percent-decodes its input, an authenticated low-privilege user can request an admin-only path using percent-encoding (e.g. /%68tadmin.php) and have nginx route it to the restricted location while the Lua RBAC gate evaluating the un-decoded raw string finds no matching restriction and grants access.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 12% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
MA
Malcolm · CISA
through 26.07.1 · source: vendor
In the news
VulnerabilityHigh
CISA Malcolm
View CSAF Summary The following versions of CISA Malcolm are affected: Malcolm <=v26.07.1 (CVE-2026-107336, CVE-2026-107361, CVE-2026-107337, CVE-2026-107335, CVE-2026-107334) Malcolm <=v26.08.0 (CVE-2026-107333, CVE-2026-107362) CVSS Vendor Equipment v3 8.1 CISA Malcolm 6 Vulnerabilities Authentication Bypass by Spoofing, Incorrect Authorization, Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF), Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel, Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF), Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) Background Critical Infrastructure Sectors: Energy, Information Technology, Water and Wastewater Systems Countries/Areas Deployed: Worldwide Company Headquarters Location: United States Vulnerabilities Expand All + CVE-2026-107336 Malcolm's front nginx reverse proxy defines a "Dashboards → Arkime shortcut" location using a case-insensitive regex matcher but a case-sensitive rewrite. A request whose path segment is not exact-lowercase (for example /IDDASH2ARK/...) enters the location (the matcher fires) but evades the rewrite (no redirect is issued), so nginx falls through to the location's proxy_pass to the Arkime backend. That location is the one proxied location in the shipped config that does not include the per-location authentication file, so the request reaches Arkime unauthenticated. The same location also forwards a client-s...
Oct 15, 2026·CISA Advisories