NGINX Under Active Attack: CVE-2026-42945 and CVE-2026-9256 Put Your Infrastructure at Risk
NGINX administrators are facing back-to-back emergency patch cycles. Within days of each other, two critical heap buffer overflow vulnerabilities were disclosed in the same NGINX component, both capable of crashing worker processes and enabling remote code execution on systems without ASLR. If your organization runs NGINX in any capacity, these need immediate attention.