CVE-2023-45132

CRITICAL

NAXSI <1.6 - Auth Bypass

Title source: llm

Description

NAXSI is an open-source maintenance web application firewall (WAF) for NGINX. An issue present starting in version 1.3 and prior to version 1.6 allows someone to bypass the WAF when a malicious `X-Forwarded-For` IP matches `IgnoreIP` `IgnoreCIDR` rules. This old code was arranged to allow older NGINX versions to also support `IgnoreIP` `IgnoreCIDR` when multiple reverse proxies were present. The issue is patched in version 1.6. As a workaround, do not set any `IgnoreIP` `IgnoreCIDR` for older versions.

Scores

CVSS v3 9.1
EPSS 0.0008
EPSS Percentile 24.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE
CWE-693
Status published

Affected Products (1)

wargio/naxsi < 1.6

Timeline

Published Oct 11, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026