18 year old critical vulnerability found in Nginx
ejcho
37 points
2 comments
May 13, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (2 comments)
ktpsns
Severe, but you also need to use quite specific configuration to be vulnerable. I can imagine this pattern to be widespread in some classical PHP applications deployed via nginx.
ChrisArchitect
better links: https://depthfirst.com/research/nginx-rift-achieving-nginx-r... ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48126029 ) https://depthfirst.com/nginx-rift ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48123365 )