# CVE-2024-49368: Unchecked logrotate settings lead to arbitrary command execution


- **Severity:** High 8.9 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 21 Oct 2024
- **Updated:** 1 Nov 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-66m6-27r9-77vm

## What is CVE-2024-49368?

CVE-2024-49368 is a high-severity vulnerability in 0xJacky nginx-ui, published on 21 Oct 2024. 

### Official description

Nginx UI is a web user interface for the Nginx web server. Prior to version 2.0.0-beta.36, when Nginx UI configures logrotate, it does not verify the input and directly passes it to exec.Command, causing arbitrary command execution. Version 2.0.0-beta.36 fixes this issue.

Weakness: CWE-20 (Improper Input Validation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-49368?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Nginxui Nginx Ui.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-49368?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-49368 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-49368 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-49368 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Public exploit code:

- Explorations of CVE-2024-49368 + Exploit Development (github_poc): https://github.com/Aashay221999/CVE-2024-49368

## Other vulnerabilities in 0xJacky nginx-ui

- [CVE-2026-33032](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-33032/): Nginx UI: Unauthenticated MCP Endpoint Allows Remote Nginx Takeover (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2026-27944](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-27944/): Nginx UI: Unauthenticated Backup Download with Encryption Key Disclosure (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2024-23827](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-23827/): Nginx-UI arbitrary file write through the Import Certificate feature (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2026-107806](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-107806/): Nginx UI: Authenticated Remote Code Execution via Backup Restore App Config Overwrite (critical 9.4)
- [CVE-2026-33026](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-33026/): nginx-ui Backup Restore Allows Tampering with Encrypted Backups (critical 9.4)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-49368 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-49368 is a high-severity vulnerability in 0xJacky nginx-ui, published on 21 Oct 2024. 
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-49368 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: 0xJacky nginx-ui. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-49368/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-49368/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-49368
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-49368
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-49368

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-49368/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.