Server-side request forgery in dfpc-coe CloudTAK
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- Present
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub.
Summary
CloudTAK is a browser-based Common Operating Picture and situational awareness tool compatible with TAK. Prior to version 13.10.0, every route in the ESRI helper family (api/routes/esri.ts) takes a fully attacker-controlled URL from the request (POST /api/esri body url, and the portal / server / layer query parameters on the GET /api/esri/* routes) and passes it into EsriBase / EsriProxyPortal / EsriProxyServer / EsriProxyLayer in api/lib/esri.ts, which fetch it with the bare fetch from @tak-ps/etl. No IP / DNS / hostname classification is applied at any point, so the destination is never validated against private, loopback, or link-local ranges. Any authenticated user (the routes only require Auth.is_auth(config, req, { anyResources: true }), i.e. any token, not an admin) can therefore make the CloudTAK server issue arbitrary outbound GET/POST requests to internal addresses such as the cloud instance-metadata service (169.254.169.254), loopback admin ports (127.0.0.1:<port>), and other hosts reachable only from inside the deployment VPC. This is a full-read SSRF, not blind: on success the upstream JSON body is returned to the caller via res.json(...), and on failure the upstream error string is reflected verbatim as ESRI Server Error: <message>. An attacker can read cloud metadata (and the temporary IAM credentials the instance role exposes), enumerate internal services, and exfiltrate their response bodies. The sniff() URL classifier provides no protection: it only pattern-matches the pathname (/rest, /arcgis/rest, /sharing/rest), so a URL like http://169.254.169.254/arcgis/rest or http://127.0.0.1:8500/rest passes sniff() and is fetched. This issue has been patched in version 13.10.0.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| dfpc-coe | CloudTAK | before 13.10.0 | 13.10.0 | Patch available | CNA |
| — | @tak-ps/cloudtak (npm) | before 13.10.0 | 13.10.0 | Patch available | GHSA-r95q-fp26-h3hc |
- CloudTAK Vendordfpc-coe Affected before 13.10.0 Fixed in 13.10.0 Patch available CNA
- @tak-ps/cloudtak (npm) Vendor— Affected before 13.10.0 Fixed in 13.10.0 Patch available GHSA-r95q-fp26-h3hc
Remediation
- Fix · CNA CloudTAK (dfpc-coe) Fixed in 13.10.0
- Fix · GHSA-r95q-fp26-h3hc @tak-ps/cloudtak (npm) Fixed in 13.10.0 Advisory →
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-55177
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-r95q-fp26-h3hc
References
More dfpc-coe vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-39385 CloudTAK: Authenticated full-read SSRF in CloudTAK basemap import (PUT /api/basemap) — no IP-classification guard CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.0
Sources
- CVE-2026-55177 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-55177 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-r95q-fp26-h3hc · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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