CVE-2026-55177
Published:July 17, 2026
Updated:August 27, 2026
Every route in the ESRI helper family ("api/routes/esri.ts") takes a fully attacker-controlled URL from the request ("POST /api/esri" body "url", and the "portal" / "server" / "layer" query parameters on the "GET /api/esri/*" routes) and passes it into "EsriBase" / "EsriProxyPortal" / "EsriProxyServer" / "EsriProxyLayer" in "api/lib/esri.ts", which fetch it with the bare "fetch" from "@tak-ps/etl". No IP / DNS / hostname classification is applied at any point, so the destination is never validated against private, loopback, or link-local ranges. Any authenticated user (the routes only require "Auth.is_auth(config, req, { anyResources: true })", i.e. any token, not an admin) can therefore make the CloudTAK server issue arbitrary outbound GET/POST requests to internal addresses such as the cloud instance-metadata service ("169.254.169.254"), loopback admin ports ("127.0.0.1:<port>"), and other hosts reachable only from inside the deployment VPC. This is a full-read SSRF, not blind: on success the upstream JSON body is returned to the caller via "res.json(...)", and on failure the upstream error string is reflected verbatim as "ESRI Server Error: <message>". An attacker can read cloud metadata (and the temporary IAM credentials the instance role exposes), enumerate internal services, and exfiltrate their response bodies. The "sniff()" URL classifier provides no protection: it only pattern-matches the pathname ("/rest", "/arcgis/rest", "/sharing/rest"), so a URL like "http://169.254.169.254/arcgis/rest" or "http://127.0.0.1:8500/rest" passes "sniff()" and is fetched.
Affected Packages
https://github.com/dfpc-coe/CloudTAK.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=v12.54.0 <v13.8.0Fix Suggestion:
Update to version v13.8.0@tak-ps/cloudtak (NPM):
Affected version(s) >=12.54.0 <13.8.0Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 13.8.0Related Resources (3)
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Contact UsCVSS v4
Base Score:
7.6
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
PRESENT
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
HIGH
Vulnerable System Integrity
HIGH
Vulnerable System Availability
NONE
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
8.1
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
NONE
Weakness Type (CWE)
Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)