pyLoad is a free and open-source download manager written in Python. Prior to version 0.5.0b3.dev97, PyLoad's download engine accepts arbitrary URLs without validation, enabling Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) attacks. An authenticated attacker can exploit this to access internal network services and exfiltrate cloud provider metadata. On DigitalOcean droplets, this exposes sensitive infrastructure data including droplet ID, network configuration, region, authentication keys, and SSH keys configured in user-data/cloud-init. Version 0.5.0b3.dev97 contains a patch.
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Advisories
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Github GHSA |
GHSA-m74m-f7cr-432x | pyLoad: Server-Side Request Forgery via Download Link Submission Enables Cloud Metadata Exfiltration |
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Sat, 28 Mar 2026 03:15:00 +0000
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| Description | pyLoad is a free and open-source download manager written in Python. Prior to version 0.5.0b3.dev97, PyLoad's download engine accepts arbitrary URLs without validation, enabling Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) attacks. An authenticated attacker can exploit this to access internal network services and exfiltrate cloud provider metadata. On DigitalOcean droplets, this exposes sensitive infrastructure data including droplet ID, network configuration, region, authentication keys, and SSH keys configured in user-data/cloud-init. Version 0.5.0b3.dev97 contains a patch. | |
| Title | pyLoad: Server-Side Request Forgery via Download Link Submission Enables Cloud Metadata Exfiltration | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-918 | |
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cvssV4_0
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-03-27T22:12:39.606Z
Reserved: 2026-03-24T22:20:06.211Z
Link: CVE-2026-33992
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-03-27T23:17:14.070
Modified: 2026-03-27T23:17:14.070
Link: CVE-2026-33992
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OpenCVE Enrichment
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Weaknesses
Github GHSA