GHSA-r46f-3rpw-hxrv: Hugo: security.http.urls deny rules bypassed by alternate IPv4 encodings (SSRF)
The default security.http.urls policy denies requests to loopback, internal,
and cloud-metadata IPv4 literals (e.g. http://127.0.0.1/,
http://169.254.169.254/). The deny rule only matched dotted-decimal notation,
so alternate IPv4 encodings of the same addresses — integer, hex, or octal,
which contain no dot — passed the policy:
http://2130706433/→127.0.0.1http://2852039166/→169.254.169.254(cloud metadata)http://0x7f000001/,http://017700000001/,http://0/
When a template passes an untrusted or data-derived URL to
resources.GetRemote and the host platform uses the
cgo system resolver, these encodings resolve to the blocked address — allowing
build-time server-side requests to loopback and internal services, including the
cloud-metadata endpoint in hosted/CI builds. The same check is reused on
redirects, so the gap also applies to each redirect hop.
This affects sites that rely on security.http.urls as a security boundary
while fetching attacker-influenced remote URLs; it does not affect sites that
fully trust the URLs they fetch.
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