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Apache disclosed two moderate-severity vulnerabilities in APISIX affecting multiple 2.x and 3.x releases, and urged users to upgrade to version 3.16.0. CVE-2026-31908 affects the forward-auth plugin in certain configurations and allows an attacker to inject malicious headers in APISIX versions 2.12.0 through 3.15.0.
Apache also disclosed CVE-2026-31924, a cleartext transmission flaw in the tencent-cloud-cls log export plugin that sends sensitive information over plaintext HTTP in versions 2.99.0 through 3.15.0. The issues were reported by SeungMyung Lee and Oleh Konko, respectively, and were announced on the oss-sec mailing list by Abhishek Choudhary.
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On the oss-sec mailing list, Abhishek Choudhary disclosed CVE-2026-31908 and CVE-2026-31924 affecting Apache APISIX. CVE-2026-31908 was credited to SeungMyung Lee, while CVE-2026-31924 was credited to Oleh Konko.
Apache addressed two moderate-severity vulnerabilities in APISIX by recommending an upgrade to version 3.16.0. The flaws affected APISIX versions up to 3.15.0, including a forward-auth header injection issue and plaintext HTTP use in the tencent-cloud-cls log export plugin.
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