Cyber Resilience

CVE-2026-28508

SSRF in Withknown Known ≤ 1.6.4

Public PoCSSRF
Published
06 March 2026
Modified
16 March 2026
Patch / advisory
CVSS Score v4 9.2
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Raw vectorCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/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 0.0063 47th percentile
Risk Priority 46 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2026-28508 is a critical-severity SSRF (CWE-918) vulnerability in Withknown Known. Its CVSS base score is 9.2 (Critical).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 47th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to AC-4 (Information Flow Enforcement) and SI-10 (Information Input Validation) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

Deeper analysis AI-assisted summary

Synthesised by an AI model from the NVD description and linked references — a reading aid, not an authoritative source.

CVE-2026-28508 is a server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability, classified under CWE-918, affecting the Idno social publishing platform prior to version 1.6.4. The issue stems from a logic error in the API authentication flow that allows trivial bypass of CSRF protection on the URL unfurl service endpoint. This endpoint lacks a login requirement, enabling unauthenticated remote attackers to exploit it. The vulnerability carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.6 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N), indicating high severity due to its network accessibility, low complexity, lack of privileges or user interaction, scoped impact, and high confidentiality consequences.

Any unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted requests to the unfurl endpoint, forcing the Idno server to issue arbitrary outbound HTTP requests to attacker-specified hosts. Targets can include internal network addresses and cloud instance metadata services, with the attacker able to retrieve the full response content. This enables potential reconnaissance of internal infrastructure, extraction of sensitive metadata, or further attacks via pivoting.

The issue has been addressed in Idno version 1.6.4, as detailed in the project's GitHub release notes and security advisory (GHSA-fcrh-fqxh-6fx6). Security practitioners should upgrade to 1.6.4 or later to mitigate the vulnerability, and review deployments for exposure of the unfurl endpoint.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

Idno is a social publishing platform. Prior to version 1.6.4, a logic error in the API authentication flow causes the CSRF protection on the URL unfurl service endpoint to be trivially bypassed by any unauthenticated remote attacker. Combined with the…

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absence of a login requirement on the endpoint itself, this allows an attacker to force the server to make arbitrary outbound HTTP requests to any host, including internal network addresses and cloud instance metadata services, and retrieve the response content. This issue has been patched in version 1.6.4.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

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.
Derived from this CVE’s CWE(s) via the direct CWE→ATT&CK cross-walk.

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Affected Assets

withknown
known
≤ 1.6.4

Mitigating Controls

Control response

Prevent
Stop it (NIST 800-53)

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

Information flow enforcement can restrict which destinations the server is allowed to contact on behalf of users.

Input validation directly stops untrusted URLs from being accepted and fetched without destination checks.

Boundary protection limits the network reach of server-initiated requests even if SSRF occurs.

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