CVE-2026-44797 is a high-severity (CVSS 8.5) Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in nautobot. A fix is available for nautobot — see the affected versions and patch details below.
Nautobot: Webhook definitions could be used for server-side request forgery (SSRF)
Exploitation Status
No confirmed exploitation observed yet
- 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-2026-44797.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) is a daily probability model maintained by FIRST.org. It estimates the likelihood a CVE will be exploited in production environments within the next 30 days, derived from real-world threat intelligence signals.
How urgent is this, really
CVE-2026-44797 plotted by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). The shaded corner — EPSS 50%+ and CVSS 7.0+ — is where this CVE doesn't sit, though severity or exploitability alone can still warrant action.
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 378,567 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the < 10% band (highlighted). Real counts from FIRST.org, not a sample — log-scaled since the landscape is heavily right-skewed.
Real-World Exposure
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Description
Impact
Nautobot's Webhook data model and associated feature set could be configured by users with sufficient access to perform requests to various hosts and IP addresses that should not be permitted, allowing for various behaviors similar to server-side request forgery (SSRF).
Patches
Fixes are available in Nautobot v2.4.33 and v3.1.2.
In support of this fix, three new settings variables have been added to Nautobot:
WEBHOOK_ALLOWED_SCHEMES- By default new or updatedWebhookrecords will be restricted to HTTP or HTTPS only, disallowing other schemes that may have been previously allowed. Administrators should audit existingWebhookrecords to identify any that are invalid, and either update/delete said records or customizeWEBHOOK_ALLOWED_SCHEMESas appropriate.WEBHOOK_ADDITIONAL_BLOCKED_NETWORKS- This can be used to specify additional IP networks that should be denied toWebhooksending, for example some deployments may wish to disallow RFC1918 addresses or even disallow all networks and carve out specific exemptions using the following setting.WEBHOOK_ALLOWED_HOSTS- This can be used to provide an allow-list of specific hosts that would otherwise be blocked by anyWEBHOOK_ADDITIONAL_BLOCKED_NETWORKSconfiguration.
Workarounds
Administrators should review which users have been granted add or change permissions for the Webhook data model, and should review currently defined Webhook records for safety and validity. Other than that, no specific workaround has been identified.
References
- 2.4.33 (<a href="https://github.com/nautobot/nautobot/commit/16aa4aa9796ab7a31c4d615ec945e1f16d8c77c4">patch</a>)
- 3.1.2 (<a href="https://github.com/nautobot/nautobot/commit/7324c8f0d8c7245fbc691e15d729adc2d2707d08">patch</a>)
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🐍PyPI | nautobot | ≥ 3.0.0a2&&< 3.1.2 | 3.1.2pip install --upgrade 'nautobot==3.1.2' |
| 🐍PyPI | nautobot | all versions | 2.4.33pip install --upgrade 'nautobot==2.4.33' |
Detection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for nautobot, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Fix
Update nautobot to 3.1.2 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2026-44797 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
Workarounds
If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.
How O3 protects you
O3 Security's impact-aware SCA analyses which vulnerable code paths your application actually calls, so a match like CVE-2026-44797 can be triaged on real exposure rather than presence alone.
Tailored to CVE-2026-44797. Runtime protection reduces exposure until a permanent patch is applied and verified — it complements patching, it doesn't replace it.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2026-44797 in your dependencies?
O3 Security finds CVE-2026-44797 across PyPI dependencies, including transitive ones, and its impact-aware SCA ranks findings by whether your code actually calls the vulnerable path.