Pelican Web UI Affected by a Privilege Escalation Attack

Background On April 2nd, 2026, a Claude coding agent alerted Pelican PI Brian Bockelman to a privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Pelican's Web User Interface WebUI for various versions between v7.21 and v7.24. Upon further investigation, the Pelican team discovered this attack allows any...

CVE-2026-42222

Nginx UI is a web user interface for the Nginx web server. In version 2.3.5, an unauthenticated bootstrap takeover exists in nginx-ui during the initial installation window exposed by POST /api/install. At time of publication no public patches are available...

CVE-2026-42221

Nginx UI is a web user interface for the Nginx web server. From version 2.0.0 to before version 2.3.8, an unauthenticated network attacker can claim the initial administrator account on a fresh nginx-ui instance during the first-run setup window. The public /api/install endpoint is reachable...

CVE-2026-42238

Nginx UI is a web user interface for the Nginx web server. Prior to version 2.3.8, nginx-ui exposes a backup restore endpoint POST /api/restore that is completely unauthenticated during the first 10 minutes after process startup on any fresh installation. An unauthenticated remote attacker can...

CVE-2026-42220

Nginx UI is a web user interface for the Nginx web server. Prior to version 2.3.8, an authenticated user can call GET /api/settings and retrieve sensitive configuration values, including node.secret. The same node.secret is accepted by AuthRequired through the X-Node-Secret header or nodesecret...

CVE-2026-42238 Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution via Backup Restore in nginx-ui

Nginx UI is a web user interface for the Nginx web server. Prior to version 2.3.8, nginx-ui exposes a backup restore endpoint POST /api/restore that is completely unauthenticated during the first 10 minutes after process startup on any fresh installation. An unauthenticated remote attacker can...

CVE-2026-42238

Nginx UI is a web user interface for the Nginx web server. Prior to version 2.3.8, nginx-ui exposes a backup restore endpoint POST /api/restore that is completely unauthenticated during the first 10 minutes after process startup on any fresh installation. An unauthenticated remote attacker can...

CVE-2026-42238 Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution via Backup Restore in nginx-ui

Nginx UI is a web user interface for the Nginx web server. Prior to version 2.3.8, nginx-ui exposes a backup restore endpoint POST /api/restore that is completely unauthenticated during the first 10 minutes after process startup on any fresh installation. An unauthenticated remote attacker can...

CVE-2026-42238 Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution via Backup Restore in nginx-ui

Nginx UI is a web user interface for the Nginx web server. Prior to version 2.3.8, nginx-ui exposes a backup restore endpoint POST /api/restore that is completely unauthenticated during the first 10 minutes after process startup on any fresh installation. An unauthenticated remote attacker can...

CVE-2026-42223 nginx-ui: Settings API Exposes Protected Secrets

Nginx UI is a web user interface for the Nginx web server. Prior to version 2.3.8, the GetSettings API handler api/settings/settings.go:24-65 serializes all settings structs to JSON and returns them to authenticated users. Many sensitive fields are tagged with protected:"true" - however, this tag...

CVE-2026-42223

Nginx UI (nginx-ui) before version 2.3.8 exposes sensitive settings through the GetSettings API. The handler serializes all settings structs to JSON and returns them to authenticated users, while the protected:"true" tag is only enforced on writes, not reads. This leaks 40+ protected fields, incl...

CVE-2026-42223 nginx-ui: Settings API Exposes Protected Secrets

Nginx UI is a web user interface for the Nginx web server. Prior to version 2.3.8, the GetSettings API handler api/settings/settings.go:24-65 serializes all settings structs to JSON and returns them to authenticated users. Many sensitive fields are tagged with protected:"true" - however, this tag...

CVE-2026-42223 nginx-ui: Settings API Exposes Protected Secrets

Nginx UI is a web user interface for the Nginx web server. Prior to version 2.3.8, the GetSettings API handler api/settings/settings.go:24-65 serializes all settings structs to JSON and returns them to authenticated users. Many sensitive fields are tagged with protected:"true" - however, this tag...

CVE-2026-42222

CVE-2026-42222 (nginx-ui 2.3.5) describes an unauthenticated bootstrap takeover during the initial installation window exposed by POST /api/install. The issue allows a remote attacker to submit attacker-chosen bootstrap data and gain full unauthenticated administrative control on a fresh, uniniti...

CVE-2026-42221 nginx-ui: Unauthenticated First-Run Installer Allows Remote Initial Admin Claim

Nginx UI is a web user interface for the Nginx web server. From version 2.0.0 to before version 2.3.8, an unauthenticated network attacker can claim the initial administrator account on a fresh nginx-ui instance during the first-run setup window. The public /api/install endpoint is reachable...

CVE-2026-42221

Summary: CVE-2026-42221 affects nginx-ui versions 2.0.0 through 2.3.7, where an unauthenticated attacker can claim the initial administrator account during first-run via the public /api/install endpoint. The installation flow and public keys are not authenticated, allowing an attacker to set admi...

CVE-2026-42221 nginx-ui: Unauthenticated First-Run Installer Allows Remote Initial Admin Claim

Nginx UI is a web user interface for the Nginx web server. From version 2.0.0 to before version 2.3.8, an unauthenticated network attacker can claim the initial administrator account on a fresh nginx-ui instance during the first-run setup window. The public /api/install endpoint is reachable...

CVE-2026-42220 nginx-ui: Authenticated settings disclosure exposes node.secret and enables trusted-node authentication abuse, backup exfiltration, and restore-based nginx-ui state rollback

Nginx UI is a web user interface for the Nginx web server. Prior to version 2.3.8, an authenticated user can call GET /api/settings and retrieve sensitive configuration values, including node.secret. The same node.secret is accepted by AuthRequired through the X-Node-Secret header or nodesecret...

CVE-2026-42220 nginx-ui: Authenticated settings disclosure exposes node.secret and enables trusted-node authentication abuse, backup exfiltration, and restore-based nginx-ui state rollback

Nginx UI is a web user interface for the Nginx web server. Prior to version 2.3.8, an authenticated user can call GET /api/settings and retrieve sensitive configuration values, including node.secret. The same node.secret is accepted by AuthRequired through the X-Node-Secret header or nodesecret...

CVE-2026-42220

Nginx UI (nginx-ui) prior to version 2.3.8 exposes a vulnerability where an authenticated user can call GET /api/settings to retrieve sensitive values, including node.secret. The node.secret is accepted by AuthRequired() via the X-Node-Secret header (or node_secret query parameter), allowing the ...