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CVE-2026-94571: CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection') in OpenStack Octavia

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Critical
VulnerabilityCVE-2026-94571cvecve-2026-94571cwe-94
Published: 09/21/2026 (09/21/2026, 20:09:16 UTC)
Source: CVE Database V5
Vendor/Project: OpenStack
Product: Octavia

Description

In OpenStack Octavia before 18.0.1, the Amphora provider driver did not reject control characters in the L7 policy redirect_url and redirect_prefix fields. The RFC 3986 URL validator percent-encodes control characters before validating, and thus newlines passed structural checks, but Octavia stored and wrote the raw unencoded value directly into the HAProxy configuration generated on the amphora. An authenticated project member who owns a load balancer can therefore inject arbitrary HAProxy directives through a REDIRECT_TO_URL L7 policy. Only deployments using the Amphora provider are affected.

CVSS v4.0

Score 9.4critical

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Attack Requirements
None
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Vuln. Confidentiality
High
Vuln. Integrity
High
Vuln. Availability
High
Subsq. Confidentiality
High
Subsq. Integrity
High
Subsq. Availability
High
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H

Affected software

OpenStack

Octavia

Affected versions
>=0.8.0 <16.1.0>=17.0.0 <17.0.1>=18.0.0 <18.0.1

Technical Details

Data Version
5.2
Assigner Short Name
mitre
Date Reserved
2026-09-21T20:09:16.460Z
Cvss Version
4.0
State
PUBLISHED

Threat ID: 6ab1944855bf5e2cf56d7c2a

Added to database: 09/21/2026, 20:32:08 UTC

Last updated: 09/21/2026, 20:32:08 UTC

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