CVE-2025-25194

Feb. 10, 2025, 11:15 p.m.

4.0
Low

Description

Lemmy, a link aggregator and forum for the fediverse, is vulnerable to server-side request forgery via a dependency on activitypub_federation, a framework for ActivityPub federation in Rust. This vulnerability, which is present in versions 0.6.2 and prior of activitypub_federation and versions 0.19.8 and prior of Lemmy, allows a user to bypass any predefined hardcoded URL path or security anti-Localhost mechanism and perform an arbitrary GET request to any Host, Port and URL using a Webfinger Request. As of time of publication, a fix has not been made available.

Product(s) Impacted

Product Versions
activitypub_federation
  • 0.6.2 and prior
Lemmy
  • 0.19.8 and prior

Weaknesses

CWE-918
Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
The web server receives a URL or similar request from an upstream component and retrieves the contents of this URL, but it does not sufficiently ensure that the request is being sent to the expected destination.

References

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/security/advisories/GHSA-7723-35v7-qcxw

Tags

security-advisories@github.com
CWE-918
2025-02-10
CVE-2025-25194

CVSS Score

4.0 / 10

CVSS Data

  • Attack Vector: NETWORK
  • Attack Complexity: HIGH
  • Privileges Required: NONE
  • Scope: CHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact: LOW
  • Integrity Impact: NONE
  • Availability Impact: NONE
    • View Vector String

    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N

Date

  • Published: Feb. 10, 2025, 11:15 p.m.
  • Last Modified: Feb. 10, 2025, 11:15 p.m.

Status : Awaiting Analysis

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

security-advisories@github.com

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