mediumCVSS 6.5Vulnerability

GHSA-h6hf-9846-xwrq

### Summary Lemmy fetches metadata for user-supplied post URLs and, under the default `StoreLinkPreviews` image mode, downloads the preview image through local pict-rs. While the top-level page URL is checked against internal IP ranges, the extracted `og:image` URL is not subject to the same restriction. As a result, an authenticated low-privileged user can submit an attacker-controlled public page whose Open Graph image points to an internal image endpoint. Lemmy will fetch that internal image server-side and store a local thumbnail that can then be served back to users. ### Details The metadata fetch logic applies an internal-address check only to the initial post URL. After HTML parsing, `extract_opengraph_data()` accepts absolute `og:image` values and returns them as-is. Later, `generate_post_link_metadata()` passes that second-hop image URL into `generate_pictrs_thumbnail()`, which instructs local pict-rs to fetch it through `image/download?url=...`. This creates a two-stage source-to-sink chain where the first URL is constrained, but the security boundary is bypassed through an unvalidated secondary resource. Core vulnerable code path: ```rust // crates/api_common/src/request.rs let metadata = match &post.url { Some(url) => fetch_link_metadata(url, &context, false).await.unwrap_or_default(), _ => Default::default(), }; ``` ```rust // crates/api_common/src/request.rs let og_image = page .opengraph .images .first() .and_then(|ogo| url.join(&ogo.url).ok()); ``` ```rust // crates/api_common/src/request.rs let thumbnail_url = if let (true, Some(url)) = (allow_generate_thumbnail, image_url.clone()) { generate_pictrs_thumbnail(&url, &context).await.ok().map(Into::into).or(image_url) } else { image_url.clone() }; ``` ```rust // crates/api_common/src/request.rs let fetch_url = format!( "{}image/download?url={}&resize={}", pictrs_config.url, encode(image_url.as_str()), context.settings().pictrs_config()?.max_thumbnail_size ); ``` These s

Properties

ghsa_id
GHSA-h6hf-9846-xwrq
severity
medium
summary
Lemmy has SSRF and internal image disclosure in post link metadata via unvalidated og:image
cvss_score
6.5
cve_id
GHSA-h6hf-9846-xwrq
cvss_vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
is_ghsa_only
true
ghsa_published
2026-04-24T15:21:58Z
source_url
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h6hf-9846-xwrq
ghsa_updated
2026-04-24T15:21:59Z

Related Entities (4)

HAS_WEAKNESS (1)

[Weakness]Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

REPORTED_BY (1)

[Source]GitHub Advisory Database

VULNERABLE_TO (1)

[Software]rust/lemmy_api_common

AFFECTS (1)

[Software]rust/lemmy_api_common

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