CVE-2026-73629

high

Assigned by CNA: vulncheck

Published 2026-08-13 · Modified 2026-08-13

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CVSS v3

8.5

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

CVSS v4 NEW

8.4

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:H/SI:L/SA:N

VIR risk

8.5

Description

Serendipity before 2.6.0 contains a server-side request forgery vulnerability in the serendipity_url_allowed() filter that fails to block hex-encoded IPv4 addresses, IPv6 literals, and link-local ranges. Authenticated users with adminImagesAdd permission can bypass the filter using alternate address formats to request internal services and retrieve response bodies through the public uploads directory.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

90%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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References

CWEs

CWE-918

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.