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

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. The vulnerabilities, a pre-authentication authorization bypass vulnerability and a command injection vulnerability, have been assigned the CVE identifiers CVE-2026-116606 (

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November 3, 2026 · 1 min read

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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. The vulnerabilities, a pre-authentication authorization bypass vulnerability and a command injection vulnerability, have been assigned the CVE identifiers CVE-2026-116606 (CVSS score: 9.3)

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