CVE-2024-21498 — caddy-security
MEDIUMCVE-2024-21498 is a medium-severity (CVSS 5.3) Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in github.com/greenpau/caddy-security. The records list no fixed version yet; check the vendor advisory below and apply the mitigations in the meantime.
Server-Side Request Forgery in github.com/greenpau/caddy-security
Exploitation Status
No confirmed exploitation observed yet
- CISA assesses this as automatable — exploitation doesn’t require manual, per-target effort, which raises the odds of mass scanning and opportunistic attacks.
- CISA’s own triage has not observed active exploitation or public proof-of-concept code for this CVE as of its last assessment.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for CVE-2024-21498.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
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Real-World Exposure
github.com/greenpau/caddy-securityReal-time download stats are indexed for npm and PyPI packages. This vulnerability affects Go packages — download data is not available via public APIs for these ecosystems.
Description
All versions of the package github.com/greenpau/caddy-security are vulnerable to Server-side Request Forgery (SSRF) via X-Forwarded-Host header manipulation. An attacker can expose sensitive information, interact with internal services, or exploit other vulnerabilities within the network by exploiting this vulnerability.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🐹Go | github.com/greenpau/caddy-security | all versions | No fix |
Affected Products
caddy-securityauthcrunchDetection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for github.com/greenpau/caddy-security, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Remediation status
The records we use list no patched version of github.com/greenpau/caddy-security for CVE-2024-21498. Check the maintainer's advisory, and where your build allows, override or pin the dependency away from the vulnerable range.
Mitigate without a patch
Restrict outbound requests from the affected component to an allowlist of hosts, block access to link-local and internal address ranges at the network layer, and require authentication on internal services so a forged request cannot reach them unauthenticated.
Frequently Asked Questions
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