CVE-2026-55537: PraisonAI: Webhook SSRF via DNS fail-open in `JobSubmitRequest.validate_webhook_url()` — bypass of CVE-2026-40114
praisonai/jobs/models.py::JobSubmitRequest.validate_webhook_url() validates webhook
URLs by resolving the hostname and checking whether the IP is private. When DNS
resolution fails (socket.gaierror), the validator silently passes the URL via
except socket.gaierror: pass. Additionally, even when DNS succeeds at validation time,
the webhook is fired much later by JobExecutor._send_webhook(), which calls
httpx.AsyncClient().post(job.webhook_url) — performing a fresh, independent DNS
lookup at execution time. Together, these flaws create a TOCTOU SSRF window.
An attacker can:
- Submit a job with
webhook_urlpointing to a hostname that currently does not resolve (NXDOMAIN) → validation passes (gaierror→pass) - Update DNS to point that hostname to
127.0.0.1or another private IP - When the job completes,
_send_webhook()resolves the hostname fresh → POST sent to the internal IP
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