safeurl validated address is not bound to the request, allowing DNS rebinding
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- High
- Attack requirements
- Present
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · Low · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition in Slab safeurl allows an attacker who controls a hostname's DNS responses to reach internal network destinations that validation rejected. Validation returns a verdict and not the address it approved, so the HTTP clients the library ships receive the original hostname and resolve it a second time when the request is made. An attacker who controls the authoritative DNS for a name can answer the first lookup with a permitted address and the second with a blocked one, and the request then reaches a destination validation never approved. The same window opens without an attacker whenever a name legitimately resolves to different addresses across lookups, such as short record lifetimes or rotation between several addresses. This issue affects safeurl: from 0.1.0 onward.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- 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-2026-77972
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-pqwh-q74p-w7h4
References
More Slab vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-54212 SSRF protection bypass in safeurl via IPv6 addresses and unresolvable hosts CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.0
- TI-2021-02246 A vulnerability in the HTML editor of Slab Quill 4.8.0 allows an attacker to execute… CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.1
- TI-2025-13736 Quill 2.0.3 - Lack of data validation in HTML export allowing XSS CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 5.1
Sources
- CVE-2026-77972 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-77972 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-pqwh-q74p-w7h4 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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