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Critical MCP Integration Flaw Puts NGINX at Risk

Attackers can abuse the near-maximum severity flaw in nginx-ui to restart, create, modify, and delete NGINX configuration files.

Attackers are actively exploiting a critical flaw in the widely used nginx-ui interface for managing NGINX web servers.

The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-33032, (CVSS: 9.8) stems from nginx-ui's insecure implementation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and gives attackers a way to make unauthorized changes to NGINX server configurations with little or no authentication in some cases. More here

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