GHSA-vmfc-9982-2m45 is a medium-severity (CVSS 5.9) Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in weblate. A fix is available for weblate — see the affected versions and patch details below.
Weblate SSRF: outbound URL guard misses some private ranges
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 GHSA-vmfc-9982-2m45.
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
GHSA-vmfc-9982-2m45 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 376,715 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
weblateReal-time download stats are indexed for npm and PyPI packages. This vulnerability affects PyPI packages — download data is not available via public APIs for these ecosystems.
Description
Impact
Weblate's VCS_RESTRICT_PRIVATE did not properly account for some transitional IPv6 ranges, multicast addresses, or some semi-private IPv4 ranges, which allowed some addresses to bypass private range restrictions.
Patches
Resources
The issue was reported by @tonghuaroot via GitHub, and the same user also provided the initial patch.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🐍PyPI | weblate | ≥ 5.15&&< 2026.6 | 2026.6pip install --upgrade 'weblate==2026.6' |
Detection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for weblate, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Fix
Update weblate to 2026.6 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms GHSA-vmfc-9982-2m45 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 GHSA-vmfc-9982-2m45 can be triaged on real exposure rather than presence alone.
Tailored to GHSA-vmfc-9982-2m45. Runtime protection reduces exposure until a permanent patch is applied and verified — it complements patching, it doesn't replace it.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is GHSA-vmfc-9982-2m45 in your dependencies?
O3 Security finds GHSA-vmfc-9982-2m45 across PyPI dependencies, including transitive ones, and its impact-aware SCA ranks findings by whether your code actually calls the vulnerable path.