Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) in Amazon EC2 - CVE-2020-2091
Published: January 16, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU24345
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 5.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-2091
CWE-ID: CWE-918
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform SSRF attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to the affected software does not perform permission checks in methods performing form validation. A remote user with Overall/Read access can send a specially crafted HTTP request and trick the application to initiate requests to arbitrary systems.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker gain access to sensitive data, located in the local network or send malicious requests to other servers from the vulnerable system.
Affected software
Amazon EC2
How to mitigate CVE-2020-2091
Install updates from vendor's website.
Amazon EC2 - update to 1.48