203 lines
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203 lines
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"cveId": "CVE-2026-91184",
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"product": "NGINX Gateway Fabric",
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"value": "CAPEC-3 Using Leading 'Ghost' Character Sequences to Bypass Input Filters"
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"url": "https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K000162609"
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}
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"value": "<span style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">\n\n<div><p>As this attack is conducted by authenticated users with Kubernetes Role-based Access Control (RBAC) write access to AuthenticationFilter <span style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">CRD</span> and Secrets, the only complete mitigation is to restrict that access to fully trusted administrators only.</p></div></span>"
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