Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) in parse-url - CVE-2022-2216
Published: October 5, 2022
Vulnerability identifier: #VU67939
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-2216
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 insufficient validation of user-supplied input caused by an improper handling of username and password. A remote attacker 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
parse-url
How to mitigate CVE-2022-2216
Install updates from vendor's website.
parse-url - update to 7.0.0