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Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)Weakness · CWE-918

CVE-2024-54819

CRITICAL · 9.1 CVSS v3.1 Published 2025-01-07
Patch available
A vendor patch is available. No clean upgrade release — apply the published patch.
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100/100
Remediation priority · Urgent
Remotely reachable No privileges Zero-click Patch available

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 · unedited
I, Librarian before and including 5.11.1 is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) due to improper input validation in classes/security/validation.php

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
How this class of weakness works · CWE-918

The server can be induced to make requests to a URL an attacker controls, turning it into a proxy into internal networks and cloud metadata services. It's especially dangerous behind a trusted network boundary. The fix is strict allow-listing of destinations and blocking access to internal address ranges.

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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
High
Availability
None

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

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Recommended fix Moderate confidence

Version greater than 5.11.1 (latest stable release)

  1. 1. Navigate to the I, Librarian project repository or your running instance
  2. 2. Identify your current installed version (check administration panel or version file)
  3. 3. If running version 5.11.1 or earlier, plan for upgrade
  4. 4. Pull the latest code or download the newest release that includes the fix commit ed36f6f258392fa2ec72f9820661ded75d91accc
  5. 5. Verify the fix by reviewing classes/security/validation.php for improved input validation
  6. 6. Deploy the updated version to your environment
  7. 7. Test that SSRF attempts are now properly blocked (e.g., attempts to access internal URLs, cloud metadata endpoints)
Caveat Review release notes for any configuration or feature changes between 5.11.1 and the target version

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