Server-side request forgery in decolua 9router
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- None
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · None · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
The POST /api/provider-nodes/validate route in 9router takes a caller-supplied baseUrl and issues server-side HTTP requests to it, guarding the destination with assertPublicUrl from src/shared/utils/ssrfGuard.js. That guard compares hostname strings only: it resolves no DNS, does not revalidate after a redirect, and its IPv4-mapped IPv6 branch is unreachable. The branch matches ^::ffff:(\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+)$, but the WHATWG URL parser canonicalizes such literals to hextets before the guard runs, so new URL("http://[::ffff:127.0.0.1]/").hostname yields [::ffff:7f00:1] and the pattern is tested against a string it is never handed. Every IPv4-mapped address therefore passes, and http://[::ffff:7f00:1] and http://[::ffff:a9fe:a9fe] reach loopback and link-local metadata addresses; a hostname whose A record points at an internal address passes as well because no resolution occurs. In the custom-embedding branch the upstream response body is truncated to 200 bytes and returned to the caller whenever the upstream status is neither 2xx nor 401 nor 403, which discloses the beginning of internal responses, and the other validation types remain usable for blind internal port scanning through status and timing differences. The caller-supplied apiKey is forwarded to the internal destination as an Authorization Bearer header. A dashboard session is required by default, and none is required when requireLogin is disabled.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-72860
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-cqgh-7h49-q3mr
References
More decolua vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-36526 9Router: Hardcoded Default fallback JWT Secret Allows Authentication Bypass CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2026-34059 9Router: Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution via unprotected MCP custom plugin routes CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 10.0
- TI-2026-44499 9Router 0.4.41 - Unauthenticated API Key Exposure via /api/usage/stats CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
- TI-2026-42622 9Router 0.4.41 - Unauthenticated API Exposure via /api/providers CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
- TI-2026-44500 9Router 0.4.41 - Unauthenticated Information Disclosure via API Usage Endpoints CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
- TI-2026-40860 9Router: Authenticated Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) via OIDC Provider Test Endpoint CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.6
Sources
- CVE-2026-72860 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-72860 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-cqgh-7h49-q3mr · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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