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Barracuda Warns of Two Chainable Flaws That Could Give Attackers Root Access

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Barracuda Flaws Could Be Chained to Bypass Authorization and Gain Root Access
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Summary

Barracuda Networks has warned customers to patch two vulnerabilities in its products. One is a pre-authentication authorization bypass and the other is a command injection flaw. Chained together, they could let an attacker bypass authorization controls and gain root access to a susceptible device. The Hacker News reports the flaws are tracked as CVE-2026-116606 with a CVSS score of 9.3. BleepingComputer reports that the issues let attackers run commands with root privileges.

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  1. BleepingComputer

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    Barracuda Networks warned customers to patch two vulnerabilities that can let attackers run commands with root privileges.

  2. The Hacker News

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    Barracuda disclosed details of a pre-authentication authorization bypass and a command injection vulnerability that, if chained, could let an attacker bypass authorization and gain root access, tracked as CVE-2026-116606 with a CVSS score of 9.3.

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