In OpenStack Octavia before 18.0.1, the Amphora provider driver did not reject control characters in the L7 policy redirect_url and redirect_prefix fields. The RFC 3986 URL validator percent-encodes control characters before validating, and thus newlines passed structural checks, but Octavia stored and wrote the raw unencoded value directly into the HAProxy configuration generated on the amphora. An authenticated project member who owns a load balancer can therefore inject arbitrary HAProxy directives through a REDIRECT_TO_URL L7 policy. Only deployments using the Amphora provider are affected.
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Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:30:00 +0000
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| Title | openstack-octavia: octavia: HAProxy configuration injection via L7 policy redirect_url and redirect_prefix | |
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| Description | In OpenStack Octavia before 18.0.1, the Amphora provider driver did not reject control characters in the L7 policy redirect_url and redirect_prefix fields. The RFC 3986 URL validator percent-encodes control characters before validating, and thus newlines passed structural checks, but Octavia stored and wrote the raw unencoded value directly into the HAProxy configuration generated on the amphora. An authenticated project member who owns a load balancer can therefore inject arbitrary HAProxy directives through a REDIRECT_TO_URL L7 policy. Only deployments using the Amphora provider are affected. | |
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Openstack
Openstack octavia |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-94 | |
| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:openstack:octavia:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
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Openstack octavia |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2026-09-21T20:09:16.848Z
Updated: 2026-09-22T13:36:39.179Z
Reserved: 2026-09-21T20:09:16.460Z
Link: CVE-2026-94571
Updated: 2026-09-22T13:36:35.270Z
Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2026-09-21T21:17:21.970
Modified: 2026-09-22T19:56:19.073
Link: CVE-2026-94571