InjectionWeakness · CWE-74

CVE-2026-54543

MEDIUM · 5.4 CVSS v3.1 Published 2026-08-18
No fix yet
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60/100
Remediation priority · Elevated
Remotely reachable Zero-click Brand new

Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

NVD · unedited
Froxlor is open source server administration software. Prior to 2.3.8, the DomainZones.add API command in lib/Froxlor/Api/Commands/DomainZones.php accepts user-controlled record and type values without rejecting line delimiters, tab characters, semicolons, or unsupported DNS record types before lib/Froxlor/Dns/DnsEntry.php serializes the values into a BIND zone file. An authenticated customer with DNS-zone permissions can place a crafted value in the record field, or use the related type-field variant, to create additional resource-record lines that bypass Froxlor's field-level validation. BIND accepts the injected records, allowing modification of DNS data and possible DNS availability impact within a zone the caller is authorized to manage. This issue is fixed in version 2.3.8.

Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.

dbcve analysis
How this class of weakness works · CWE-74

Untrusted input crosses into a downstream interpreter — SQL, a shell, an HTML page, an LDAP query — without being kept separate from the commands around it, so the attacker's data is read as instructions. This is the parent class behind SQL injection, cross-site scripting, and command injection alike. The durable fix is the same everywhere: keep data and code apart at every boundary, using parameterisation or context-aware encoding rather than building interpreted strings by concatenation.

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CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.

From the vector
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
Low

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

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dbcve · scoped
Recommended fix High confidence

2.3.8

  1. Check current Froxlor version by navigating to the admin panel or running: grep 'VERSION' /var/www/froxlor/lib/Froxlor/Version.php
  2. Backup the Froxlor database and configuration files before upgrading
  3. Upgrade Froxlor to version 2.3.8 using the distribution's package manager or by following the official upgrade instructions at https://docs.froxlor.org/
  4. After upgrading, verify that the DomainZones.add API command now properly sanitizes record and type values by attempting to add a DNS record with special characters (line delimiters, tabs, semicolons) - these should be rejected
  5. Confirm the version number shows 2.3.8 after upgrade
Caveat Review release notes for 2.3.8 to check for any breaking changes or required database migrations before upgrading

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