Roxy-WI: Authenticated arbitrary file write on every managed load balancer (and downstream RCE) via WAF rule save `config_file_name`
Roxy-WI is a web interface for managing Haproxy, Nginx, Apache and Keepalived servers. In versions 8.2.6.4 and prior, POST /waf/<service>/<server_ip>/rule/<rule_id>/save accepts a config_file_name form field that is passed straight through to config_mod.master_slave_upload_and_restart(...) as the destination path. The validation chain (_replace_config_path_to_correct → check_is_conf) only requires the path to contain a hard-coded service substring (nginx/haproxy/apache2/httpd/keepalived) and the substring conf or cfg, and to not contain ... The encoded-slash substitution 92 → / is applied before the substring check, so the attacker can build any absolute path anywhere on the LB filesystem as long as it satisfies those substring constraints. The body of the WAF rule (config form field) is written verbatim to that path. By choosing a filename like 92etc92cron.d92nginx_cfg_evil (resolving to /etc/cron.d/nginx_cfg_evil), an attacker drops a cron entry on the load balancer with attacker-controlled content. Cron parses the file on its next scan, executing the embedded job as root — full RCE on every load balancer the caller's group manages. At time of publication, there are no publicly available patches.
Problem Types
| Type | CWE ID | Description |
|---|
| CWE | CWE-20 | CWE-20: Improper Input Validation |
| CWE | CWE-22 | CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') |
| CWE | CWE-73 | CWE-73: External Control of File Name or Path |
| CWE | CWE-78 | CWE-78: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection') |
Type: CWE
Description: CWE-20: Improper Input Validation
Type: CWE
Description: CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Type: CWE
Description: CWE-73: External Control of File Name or Path
Type: CWE
Description: CWE-78: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')
Metrics
| Version | Base score | Base severity | Vector |
|---|
| 3.1 | 9.9 | CRITICAL | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
Version: 3.1
Base score: 9.9
Base severity: CRITICAL
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H