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CVE-2026-102334

Nginx Proxy Manager through 2.16.0 Missing Brute-Force Protection

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Status
published
Known exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fix or patch referenced
Public exploit
None on Exploit-DB
CISA SSVC
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: total
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Decision points from CISA's Vulnrichment, assessed (SSVC 2.0.3).

SSVC documentation

Summary

Nginx Proxy Manager through 2.16.0 lacks rate-limiting on authentication endpoints, allowing unauthenticated attackers to make unlimited password guesses against any account. Attackers can brute-force login credentials via POST /api/tokens and subsequently guess TOTP codes via POST /api/tokens/2fa to gain full session access and administrative control.

Affected versions

  • NginxProxyManager nginx-proxy-manager

    through 2.16.0

References 6

GitHub · NginxProxyManager/nginx-proxy-manager

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