GHSA-87fv-vqqr-m4jr
SeaweedFS: Unauthenticated SSRF with response read-back via VolumeServer.FetchAndWriteNeedle
Quick fix
GHSA-87fv-vqqr-m4jr — github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.
go get github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs@v0.0.0-20260512171120-69da20bdaec9 Details
### Impact `VolumeServer.FetchAndWriteNeedle` fetches a caller-supplied remote endpoint and writes the response into a needle. Before 4.24 this RPC performed no authentication and no validation of the target, so anyone able to reach a volume server's gRPC port could coerce the server into issuing requests to arbitrary hosts — including loopback, link-local, RFC 1918, and cloud metadata endpoints such as `169.254.169.254` — and read the response back. On cloud deployments this discloses instance metadata and IAM credentials, and can be used to reach otherwise-unexposed internal services (SSRF with response read-back).
The volume server gRPC plane is unauthenticated on a default deployment, so no credentials are required. Configuring the documented JWT signing keys does not close it, because that hardening does not apply to this RPC.
### Affected component - `weed/server/volume_grpc_remote.go` (`FetchAndWriteNeedle`) - `weed/remote_storage/s3/s3_storage_client.go`
### Patches Fixed in **4.24**. `FetchAndWriteNeedle` now requires admin authorization and refuses loopback / link-local / RFC 1918 / IMDS destinations through a guarded dialer that resolves the host itself and pins the resolved address for the duration of the request, defeating DNS-rebinding. The Rust volume server carries the equivalent endpoint validation.
### Workarounds Restrict volume server gRPC ports to trusted hosts via firewall / network policy, and enable mTLS via `security.toml`.
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Affected packages
0 Fixed in: 0.0.0-20260512171120-69da20bdaec9 go get github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs@v0.0.0-20260512171120-69da20bdaec9 References
- https://github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs/security/advisories/GHSA-87fv-vqqr-m4jr [WEB]
- https://github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs/pull/9441 [WEB]
- https://github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs/commit/69da20bdaec923e5a43d8aa71bf3c0a2051fc019 [WEB]
- https://github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs [PACKAGE]
- https://github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs/releases/tag/4.24 [WEB]