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TI-2026-39861 Aliases CVE-2026-55177GHSA-r95q-fp26-h3hc

Server-side request forgery in dfpc-coe CloudTAK

Priority HIGH 68CWE-918Published · Updated

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

Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.0038 32nd percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed CloudTAK (dfpc-coe): 13.10.0@tak-ps/cloudtak (npm): 13.10.0

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

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
dfpc-coeCloudTAKbefore 13.10.013.10.0Patch availableCNA
—@tak-ps/cloudtak (npm)before 13.10.013.10.0Patch availableGHSA-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

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-55177
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-r95q-fp26-h3hc

References

  • TI-2026-39385 CloudTAK: Authenticated full-read SSRF in CloudTAK basemap import (PUT /api/basemap) — no IP-classification guard CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.0

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