CVE-2026-45565 Roxy-WI: EscapedString validator skips its '..' block when stripping (root cause for several path-traversal/RCE vectors)

Roxy-WI is a web interface for managing Haproxy, Nginx, Apache and Keepalived servers. In versions 8.2.6.4 and prior, EscapedString app/modules/roxywi/classmodels.py:16-30 is the centralised Pydantic validator used on dozens of fields including SSH credential name, username, description, etc. Its...

CVE-2026-45565 Roxy-WI: EscapedString validator skips its '..' block when stripping (root cause for several path-traversal/RCE vectors)

Roxy-WI is a web interface for managing Haproxy, Nginx, Apache and Keepalived servers. In versions 8.2.6.4 and prior, EscapedString app/modules/roxywi/classmodels.py:16-30 is the centralised Pydantic validator used on dozens of fields including SSH credential name, username, description, etc. Its...

EUVD-2026-36062

Roxy-WI is a web interface for managing Haproxy, Nginx, Apache and Keepalived servers. In versions 8.2.6.4 and prior, EscapedString app/modules/roxywi/classmodels.py:16-30 is the centralised Pydantic validator used on dozens of fields including SSH credential name, username, description, etc. Its...

CVE-2026-45565

CVE-2026-45565 affects Roxy-WI up to 8.2.6.4. The issue lies in the EscapedString Pydantic validator (app/modules/roxywi/class_models.py:16-30): its if/elif/else path strips metacharacters but does not apply the surrounding .. block, allowing an attacker to append a single ;, &, |, $, or ` to a p...