RCE in OpenStack Octavia
CVE-2026-94572
In OpenStack Octavia before 18.0.1, the Amphora provider driver did not validate the listener and pool tls_ciphers field for control characters. The value is written verbatim into the HAProxy configuration generated on the amphora, and thus an authenticated project member who owns a TLS-enabled load balancer can embed a newline and inject arbitrary HAProxy configuration directives. Only deployments using the Amphora provider are affected.
Vulnerability class: RCE (Remote Code Execution)
Published · last modified .
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.005 (45.2th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 45th percentile — 45.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.005 · newest: 0.005 · change: 0.000
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- bugs.launchpad.net/octavia/+bug/2162101 (issue-tracking)
- bugs.launchpad.net/octavia/+bug/2167565 (issue-tracking)
- bugs.debian.org/1148175 (issue-tracking)
- opendev.org/openstack/octavia/commit/cad62902e4984a46ad80cbfa943e90006d8d599d (patch)
- security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2026-039.html (vendor-advisory)
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/09/21/6 (mailing-list)