Apify Actors MCP Server before 0.9.12 Server-Side Request Forgery via get-html-skeleton
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- None
- Impact type
- Information disclosure
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · None · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-918 and the CVSS impact.
Summary
The get-html-skeleton tool fetched a URL the caller supplied after checking only its syntax. The handler in src/tools/common/get_html_skeleton.ts validated the url argument with isValidHttpUrl from src/utils/generic.ts, which confirmed the string began with an http or https scheme and parsed as a URL and inspected neither the host name nor the address it resolves to. Loopback, link-local and private ranges therefore passed, including the address cloud providers use to serve instance metadata. The unchecked URL was handed to the web-browser actor and the fetched document was returned in the tool response, so any caller of the MCP server could make it request an endpoint reachable only from the host and read the result, including instance credentials. Version 0.9.12 removes the tool.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- Yes
- 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
- Fix · CNA actors-mcp-server (apify) Fixed in 0.9.12
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-81093
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-gghj-77w7-6r3h
References
More apify vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-36913 Actor MCP path authority injection leaks Apify token CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.1
- TI-2026-34061 Apify MCP server: Domain Allowlist Bypass in fetch-apify-docs via String Prefix Matching CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.1
- TI-2026-34195 SSRF via sitemap-derived URLs in Crawlee for Python CVSS 4.0LOW 2.3
Sources
- CVE-2026-81093 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-81093 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-gghj-77w7-6r3h · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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