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CVE-2026-93483: Product identification pending

Severity

9.5 (CRITICAL)

Vendor

ZNUNY

Affected versions

Through 7.3.6

Patch status

Unknown

Published

2026-10-15T04:18:30.153

Modified

2026-10-15T04:18:30.153

Why it matters

Critical vulnerability requiring immediate validation against your environment.

Recommended admin actions

• Prioritize validation immediately due to critical CVSS severity.
• Compare installed versions against the affected version range in the advisory.
• Treat internet-facing systems as higher priority.

Technical summary

In Znuny through 7.3.6, an attacker can bypass specific standard login procedures and gain unauthorized access to sensitive system functions by manipulating a specific HTTP request header. Because the application incorrectly trusts this header, an attacker can impersonate any user, including administrators, without requiring a password. This grants full access to confidential data and system controls. More specifically, the HTTPBasicAuth modules for the agent (Kernel::System::Auth::HTTPBasicAuth) and customer (Kernel::System::CustomerAuth::HTTPBasicAuth) interfaces read the username to log in not only from $ENV{REMOTE_USER} (set by the web server after successful authentication), but also, as a fallback, from $ENV{HTTP_REMOTE_USER}, which is populated directly from an attacker-controllable "Remote-User" request header. On systems where HTTPBasicAuth was configured as the authentication backend, this allowed an attacker to log in as any existing user by sending a request with a forged Remote-User header, without providing any credentials.

View the official NVD record for CVE-2026-93483

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