Paper/Archive/CVE-2026-77972

CVE-2026-77972

Slab safeurl — safeurl validated address is not bound to the request, allowing DNS rebinding

Description · from the CVE record

Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition in Slab safeurl allows an attacker who controls a hostname's DNS responses to reach internal network destinations that validation rejected. Validation returns a verdict and not the address it approved, so the HTTP clients the library ships receive the original hostname and resolve it a second time when the request is made. An attacker who controls the authoritative DNS for a name can answer the first lookup with a permitted address and the second with a blocked one, and the request then reaches a destination validation never approved. The same window opens without an attacker whenever a name legitimately resolves to different addresses across lookups, such as short record lifetimes or rotation between several addresses. This issue affects safeurl: from 0.1.0 onward.

Affected

ProductAffectedFixed inSource
safeurl0.1.0–CNA
safeurlfeabbd0a13f83028ab24b71710526e9da9841f70–CNA

Scores by source

EEF (CNA)9.0CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:H/SI:L/SA:N
CISA ADPSSVCExploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

References

writeupcna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-77972.htmlrefosv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-77972refgithub.com/slab/safeurl-elixir/commit/feabbd0a13f83028ab24b71710526e9da9841f70