CVE-2026-55421 (GCVE-0-2026-55421)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-02 16:54
Modified
2026-09-04 02:47
Severity ?
6.8 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-918 - Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
Summary
Open edX Platform enables the authoring and delivery of online learning at any scale. Prior to commit 00b7c3c, the endpoint accepts user-supplied files[].url, performs a server-side fetch using "requests.get(url, allow_redirects=True)". The fetched bytes are then returned inside a ZIP response. This enables SSRF with response exfiltration. Redirect-following is enabled, and there is no timeout in the vulnerable fetch path. This issue has been patched via commit 00b7c3c.
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