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NGINX Rift: an 18-year-old flaw in the world’s most deployed web server just came to light

  • Pierluigi Paganini--Securityaffairs.com
  • published date: 2026-05-14 13:30:44 UTC

Researchers found a critical 18-year-old buffer overflow flaw in NGINX, tracked as CVE-2026-42945 and named NGINX Rift. If you run NGINX, and statistically speaking, there is a very good chance you do, this week brought news worth stopping for. Security resea…

NGINX Rift: an 18-year-old flaw in the world’s most deployed web server just came to light If you run NGINX, and statistically speaking, there is a very good chance you do, this week brought news wo… [+6497 chars]