Fedify has an incomplete SSRF mitigation after GHSA-p9cg-vqcc-grcx: validatePublicUrl allows special-use IPv4 ranges
Fedify is a TypeScript library for building federated server apps powered by ActivityPub. Fedify previously addressed SSRF/internal network access in GHSA-p9cg-vqcc-grcx by adding public URL validation before runtime document and media fetching. However, the IPv4 validation logic present starting in version 0.11.2 and prior to versions 1.9.12, 1.10.11, 2.0.19, 2.1.15, and 2.2.4 appears incomplete. The `validatePublicUrl()` protection relies on `isValidPublicIPv4Address()` to reject non-public IPv4 destinations. The function blocks common private and local ranges such as `10.0.0.0/8`, `127.0.0.0/8`, `169.254.0.0/16`, `172.16.0.0/12`, and `192.168.0.0/16`, but it still treats several special-use, reserved, multicast, benchmarking, and carrier-grade NAT IPv4 ranges as valid public destinations. Because this validation is used as an SSRF defense before outbound fetches, this appears to be an incomplete mitigation or bypass class for the previous SSRF issue. Versions 1.9.12, 1.10.11, 2.0.19, 2.1.15, and 2.2.4 contain an updated patch.
Problem Types
| Type | CWE ID | Description |
|---|
| CWE | CWE-918 | CWE-918: Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) |
| CWE | CWE-1286 | CWE-1286: Improper Validation of Syntactic Correctness of Input |
| CWE | CWE-1389 | CWE-1389: Incorrect Parsing of Numbers with Different Radices |
Type: CWE
Description: CWE-918: Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
Type: CWE
Description: CWE-1286: Improper Validation of Syntactic Correctness of Input
Type: CWE
Description: CWE-1389: Incorrect Parsing of Numbers with Different Radices
Metrics
| Version | Base score | Base severity | Vector |
|---|
| 3.1 | 8.6 | HIGH | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L |
Version: 3.1
Base score: 8.6
Base severity: HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L