CRLF Injection Affecting nginx package, versions [0.6.27,1.28.3)[1.29.0,1.29.7)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.26% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-NGINX-15808031
  • published29 Mar 2026
  • disclosed24 Mar 2026
  • creditAsim Viladi Oglu Manizada, Colin Warren, Xiao Liu, Yuan Tan, Bird Liu

Introduced: 24 Mar 2026

CVE-2026-28753  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-93  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade nginx to version 1.28.3, 1.29.7 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to CRLF Injection in the ngx_mail_smtp_module process. An attacker can manipulate SMTP upstream requests by injecting arbitrary headers through specially crafted DNS responses containing Carriage Return (CRLF) sequences.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1