Cyber Resilience

CVE-2026-15189

SSRF

Published
09 July 2026
Modified
09 July 2026
CVSS Score v4 5.3
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Raw vectorCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
EPSS Score 0.0021 11th percentile
Risk Priority 35 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2026-15189 is a medium-severity SSRF (CWE-918) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 5.3 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 11th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

This vulnerability is AI-related — categorised as AI Agent Protocols and Integrations; in the Protocol-Specific Risks risk domain.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to AC-4 (Information Flow Enforcement) and SC-7 (Boundary Protection) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

A security vulnerability has been detected in aerostackdev aerostack-mcp up to 6315dfde7df0a15aaf743f88d91347115e09ba23. Affected by this issue is the function upload_media of the component mcp-whatsapp. Such manipulation of the argument media_url leads to server-side request forgery. The attack may be launched…

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remotely. This product operates on a rolling release basis, ensuring continuous delivery. Consequently, there are no version details for either affected or updated releases. The project was informed of the problem early through an issue report but has not responded yet.

CWE(s)

AI Security AnalysisAI

AI Category
AI Agent Protocols and Integrations
Risk Domain
Protocol-Specific Risks
OWASP Top 10 for LLMs 2025
None mapped
Classification Reason
Matched keywords: mcp, mcp

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
Why these techniques?

The vulnerability is a server-side request forgery (SSRF) in the upload_media function triggered by a remote attacker supplying a malicious media_url argument. This directly enables exploitation of a public-facing application (T1190) to force the server to make arbitrary outbound requests.

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

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CVE-2026-7147Shared CWE-918
CVE-2026-10274Shared CWE-918
CVE-2025-0454Shared CWE-918
CVE-2026-7158Shared CWE-918
CVE-2025-62615Shared CWE-918
CVE-2026-12774Shared CWE-918

Affected Assets

Mitigating Controls

Control response

Prevent
Stop it (NIST 800-53)
  • SC-7 Boundary Protection
  • AC-4 Information Flow Enforcement
  • SI-10 Information Input Validation
Detect
Catch it (NIST detect / respond)

Harden
Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)

Validate
Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)
  • V1.3.6
  • V1.5.3
  • V5.3.2
  • V10.4.7

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

prevent

Boundary protection rules can block the outbound HTTP requests initiated by the vulnerable upload_media function when it blindly follows an attacker-supplied media_url, thereby stopping the SSRF before it reaches internal resources.

prevent

Information flow enforcement can be configured to prohibit the application from initiating network connections to arbitrary external or internal destinations, directly mitigating the CWE-918 flaw in the media_url parameter handling.

prevent

Input validation on the media_url argument can reject malformed or non-whitelisted URLs before they are used in server-side requests, reducing the attack surface even though the root cause is lack of SSRF-specific filtering.

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

PR.PS-06 mostly match
prevents

Secure development practices directly include input validation and destination allow-listing that prevent SSRF.

DE.CM-09 partial match
prevents

Runtime monitoring of web applications and services can detect anomalous outbound requests indicative of SSRF.

ID.RA-01 partial match
prevents

Vulnerability identification processes can discover and record SSRF flaws in web applications.

PR.IR-01 partial match
prevents

Network segmentation and egress controls can limit the damage from successful SSRF requests.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

prevents

Operational threat data describing SSRF campaigns can be used to tighten outbound-request allow-lists and detection rules before attackers exploit them.

References