SB2021122709 - SSRF in Traffix SDC (Apache HTTP server component)
Published: December 27, 2021 Updated: January 12, 2022
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-44224)
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform SSRF attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input in forward proxy configurations. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request and trick the web server to initiate requests to arbitrary systems or cause NULL pointer dereference error and crash the web server.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker gain access to sensitive data, located in the local network or send malicious requests to other servers from the vulnerable system.
SSRF if possible for configuration that mix forward and reverse proxy.
Remediation
Cybersecurity Help is not aware of any official remediation provided by the vendor.