Description
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.
Published: 2026-09-21
Score: 9.4 Critical
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-8814-1 Octavia vulnerabilities
History

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Title TLS Cipher Injection in OpenStack Octavia Amphora Provider openstack-octavia: octavia: HAProxy configuration injection via tls_ciphers on pools and listeners
References
Metrics threat_severity

None

cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L'}

threat_severity

Important


Mon, 21 Sep 2026 22:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Title TLS Cipher Injection in OpenStack Octavia Amphora Provider

Mon, 21 Sep 2026 20:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description 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.
First Time appeared Openstack
Openstack octavia
Weaknesses CWE-94
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:openstack:octavia:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Openstack
Openstack octavia
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 9.4, 'vector': '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'}


Subscriptions

Openstack Octavia
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-24T22:41:15.736Z

Reserved: 2026-09-21T20:13:35.187Z

Link: CVE-2026-94572

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-09-21T21:17:22.150

Modified: 2026-09-24T23:19:22.677

Link: CVE-2026-94572

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2026-09-21T20:13:35Z

Links: CVE-2026-94572 - Bugzilla

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-09-21T22:30:12Z

Weaknesses
  • CWE-94

    Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')