International Cyber Digest@IntCyberDigest
🚨 UPDATE: 19 MILLION exposed NGINX instances hit by the 18-year-old NGINX RCE found by AI.
Top exposure by country:
- United States: 5,340,011
- China: 2,540,008
- Germany: 1,871,780
Note on ASLR as added security: not all of these instances will have ASLR disabled, but every one of them is running a version inside the vulnerable band.
The vulnerability is a heap buffer overflow. ASLR randomizes memory layout, which makes reliable RCE much harder because the attacker cannot predict where their payload or useful gadgets land. But the overflow itself still happens. The corrupted memory still causes the NGINX worker process to crash.
ASLR-enabled hosts are still trivially DoS-able. ASLR-disabled or non-PIE builds are RCE-able. Either way, patch ASAP!