CVE-2026-45135 PUBLISHED

Caddy: Unsafe Unicode Handling in FastCGI splitPos Allows Execution of Non-PHP Files

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 08.05.2026 Published: 23.06.2026 Updated: 23.06.2026

Caddy is an extensible server platform that uses TLS by default. From 2.7.0 until 2.11.3, the FastCGI transport's splitPos() in modules/caddyhttp/reverseproxy/fastcgi/fastcgi.go misuses golang.org/x/text/search with search.IgnoreCase when the request path contains a non-ASCII byte. Two distinct flaws in that fallback let an attacker mislead Caddy's FastCGI splitting into treating a non-.php (or other configured split_path extension) file as a script. In any deployment where the attacker can place content into a file served via FastCGI (uploads, file storage, etc.), this can be escalated to remote code execution by crafting a URL whose path triggers either flaw. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.11.3.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 8.1

Product Status

Vendor caddyserver
Product caddy
Versions
  • Version >= 2.7.0, < 2.11.3 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-20: Improper Input Validation CWE
  • CWE-176: Improper Handling of Unicode Encoding CWE
  • CWE-178: Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity CWE