{"id":3958,"date":"2026-11-03T21:01:05","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T21:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedigitalfortress.us\/?p=3958"},"modified":"2026-11-03T21:01:05","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T21:01:05","slug":"barracuda-flaws-could-be-chained-to-bypass-authorization-and-gain-root-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedigitalfortress.us\/?p=3958","title":{"rendered":"Barracuda Flaws Could Be Chained to Bypass Authorization and Gain Root Access"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span class=\"p-author\"><i class=\"icon-font icon-user\">\ue804<\/i><span class=\"author\">Ravie Lakshmanan<\/span><i class=\"icon-font icon-calendar\">\ue802<\/i><span class=\"author\">Nov 03, 2026<\/span><\/span><span class=\"p-tags\">Vulnerability \/ Network Security<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"articlebody\">\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhCvGJCkYjldhAvsjMo47UqxGOTfVY1zCcjZQzgebkO8j1__fa0cFOn3CAV1jPTUpzwDDISQKPQP5eVGOl9BzRLBX7KlWuU2HMpzuHRWV2wyaItDwYgPu0X7m3qE5V1kgFzKZ1QYcRBcZyDqkUTFberiOWXBfV_-suYC1QQWq_TwBMeyme4F0FsOZnpijhC\/s1700-nu-rw-lo-l85-e365\/barracuda.png\" style=\"clear: left; display: block; float: left;  text-align: center;\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Barracuda has disclosed details of two vulnerabilities affecting its products that, if chained together, could allow an attacker to bypass authorization controls and gain root access to a susceptible device.<\/p>\n<p>The vulnerabilities, a pre-authentication authorization bypass vulnerability and a command injection vulnerability, have been assigned the CVE identifiers <strong>CVE-2026-116606<\/strong> (CVSS score: 9.3) and <strong>CVE-2026-111560<\/strong> (CVSS score: 8.6), respectively.<\/p>\n<p>While CVE-2026-116606 only affects Email Security Gateway, CVE-2026-111560 impacts the following Barracuda products &#8211;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Email Security Gateway<\/li>\n<li>Load Balancer Application Delivery Controller<\/li>\n<li>Message Archiver<\/li>\n<li>WAF Control Center<\/li>\n<li>Web Application Firewall<\/li>\n<li>Web Security Gateway<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00abSuccessful exploitation requires an attacker to have access to the administrative interface of an affected product,\u00bb Barracuda <a href=\"https:\/\/trust.barracuda.com\/security\/pre-authentication-authorization-bypass-command-injection\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>. \u00abIf exploited in combination, these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to bypass authorization controls and obtain root access to the device.\u00bb<\/p>\n<div class=\"dog_two clear\">\n<div class=\"cf\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.uk\/network-defense-dd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener sponsored\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload\" alt=\"Cybersecurity\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiWypk5aSrjVVXdRpyJaxKDe9VERLYId6cVdoZUwHGSe-EMh90qROsc-jk3uEKqB8-L4eSpBaka7err1zF86IrsEA4S2IZ8yyEsoZTsiGq2YvGuaCtdFvE8-ej7uEBhLbYJNENjs9umU6qmZCJ1aAzvG-ZDO0NtTVddy5hIGv4FBpDJp8UeOxYEzF5AeuK1\/s728-nu-rw-lo-l85-e36\/core-d.png\" width=\"729\" height=\"91\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Barracuda said that organizations that do not expose their administrative interfaces to the internet are less vulnerable to the attack path, urging customers to follow the steps below &#8211;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>Restrict access to administrative interfaces to trusted internal networks<\/li>\n<li>Use appropriate network access controls to limit exposure<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00abCustomers using these products should verify that their systems are running the latest firmware versions and have received all security patches,\u00bb it added. \u00abIf firmware on a device is multiple versions out of date, customers may need to perform more than one update.\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ue804Ravie Lakshmanan\ue802Nov 03, 2026Vulnerability \/ Network Security Barracuda has disclosed details of two vulnerabilities affecting its products that, if chained together, could allow an attacker to bypass authorization controls and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[130,1108,4041,394,3331,11,580,61],"class_list":["post-3958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-access","tag-authorization","tag-barracuda","tag-bypass","tag-chained","tag-flaws","tag-gain","tag-root"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedigitalfortress.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedigitalfortress.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedigitalfortress.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedigitalfortress.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedigitalfortress.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedigitalfortress.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedigitalfortress.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedigitalfortress.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedigitalfortress.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedigitalfortress.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}