Vulnerabilities · 47 days ago

Ubiquiti Fixes UniFi Control-Plane Entry Points

Ubiquiti said it has fixed 22 UniFi vulnerabilities across UniFi Protect, UniFi OS, UniFi Network Application, UniFi Connect, UniFi Access, UniFi Talk, UniFi OS Server, UID Enterprise Agent, and related appliances. The Dutch NCSC published the advisory on August 27 and said the issues include OS command injection, CRLF injection, and active debug code.

In plain terms, some requests were not being checked tightly enough, so a network attacker could get a malformed request treated as a command, slip extra line breaks past an authentication check, or use debug code to raise privileges. That means the impact is not limited to one app bug: a reachable UniFi component can become a foothold for command execution, auth bypass, or privilege escalation on the host it runs on.

For operators, the important part is where UniFi sits in the environment. If a controller or appliance is the management plane for other gear, the exposure can extend beyond the box that carries the flaw, and patching one component does not erase the trust relationships built around it.

CVEs in this update

336 CVEs

Across OpenSSL, FreeBSD OS, Chrome.

5 critical · 11 high · 1 medium · 0 low

0 in CISA KEV · 2 with EPSS above 1%

Highest severity: CVE-2026-79275 · 9.6 CRITICAL

Highest EPSS: CVE-2026-18798 · 1.5%

Showing the top 10 by KEV, EPSS, and severity.

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Part of the PlainSec briefing for 2026-08-27

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