CVE-2026-44046: Use of Less Trusted Source vulnerability in Apache APISIX. Attacker can take advantage of wolf-rbac plugin under default configuration to potentially pollute…

PriorityP434medium5.8CVSS 3.1

AVNACLPRNUINSCCNILAN

EPSS

0.31%

23.4th percentile

Use of Less Trusted Source vulnerability in Apache APISIX. Attacker can take advantage of wolf-rbac plugin under default configuration to potentially pollute logs with spoofed identity information and exploit IP based access control rules. This issue affects Apache APISIX: from 1.2.0 through 3.16.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.17.0, which fixes the issue.

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
apache	apisix	>= 1.2 < 3.17.0	3.17.0
apache_software_foundation	apache_apisix	1.2.0 – 3.16.0	—

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.15.8MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N

nvdv4.02.3LOWCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:L/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

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