CVE-2024-13173
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedThe health module has insufficient restrictions on loading URLs, which may lead to some information leakage.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceThe health module contains insufficient restrictions on URL loading, allowing arbitrary URLs to be requested. This could enable an attacker to induce the application to make requests to attacker-controlled endpoints, potentially leaking sensitive information such as internal service details, credentials, or network topology.
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CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Identify health module with URL loading capabilityLocate any health check, monitoring, or status module in your application that has the ability to fetch or load URLs. This may be named 'health', 'healthcheck', 'status', 'monitoring', or similar. Search your codebase and configuration for functions that make HTTP requests as part of health status checking.Affected if Your application has a health module that can load URLs from external or internal sources
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Check if URL loading is enabled in health module configurationReview the health module's configuration files and settings to determine whether URL loading or remote resource fetching is enabled. Look for flags like 'enable_url_load', 'allow_remote_fetch', 'load_external_urls', or similar settings.Affected if URL loading or remote fetching is explicitly enabled in the health module configuration
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Inspect URL validation implementationExamine the health module source code or documentation to determine how URLs are validated before being requested. Check if there is an allowlist of permitted domains or if any URL can be specified.Affected if No URL validation, allowlisting, or domain restriction is implemented in the health module
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Test for arbitrary URL request capabilityIf you have access to the health module interface, provide a test URL (such as a non-existent internal endpoint like http://internal-test.local or an external site) and observe whether the health module attempts to fetch it.Affected if The health module can be induced to make requests to arbitrary URLs, including internal network endpoints or attacker-controlled domains
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Review access logs for health module outbound requestsExamine your application logs, proxy logs, or network traffic logs for outbound requests originating from the health module to unexpected or internal destinations that were not explicitly configured.Affected if Logs show the health module making requests to URLs that were not intentionally configured or are internal infrastructure
Your environment is affected if the health module has URL loading enabled without proper validation or allowlisting controls, allowing arbitrary URL requests to be made.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataImplement strict URL validation and allowlisting for the health module's URL loading functionality to restrict requests to trusted endpoints only.
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The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
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- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
- A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon
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