Tenable Terrascan up to 1.18.3 Remote Scan Endpoint Stack server-side request forgery

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A vulnerability was found in Tenable Terrascan up to 1.18.3. It has been declared as critical. The impacted element is the function AWS::CloudFormation::Stack of the component Remote Scan Endpoint. The manipulation results in server-side request forgery. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2026-47358. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Tenable Terrascan up to 1.18.3. Affected is the function AWS::CloudFormation::Stack of the component Remote Scan Endpoint. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a server-side request forgery vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-918. The web server receives a URL or similar request from an upstream component and retrieves the contents of this URL, but it does not sufficiently ensure that the request is being sent to the expected destination. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Terrascan v1.18.3 and prior are vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) via external URL resolution in uploaded IaC templates when running in server mode. When Terrascan parses uploaded ARM templates or CloudFormation templates, it resolves external URLs referenced within those templates via hashicorp/go-getter with all default detectors enabled, including FileDetector. An unauthenticated remote attacker can upload an ARM template containing a templateLink.uri or parametersLink.uri field, or a CloudFormation template containing an AWS::CloudFormation::Stack TemplateURL field, pointing to an attacker-controlled URL. Terrascan will fetch the attacker-controlled URL server-side. Unlike SSRF via the remote scan endpoint, file:// URLs are directly usable without requiring an X-Terraform-Get redirect, enabling local file read. This affects deployments running terrascan in server mode (terrascan server), which binds to 0.0.0.0 with no authentication. Note: Terrascan was archived in August 2023 and no patch will be released.

The weakness was shared by Tristan Madani. The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-47358 since 05/19/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 05/23/2026).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Tenable

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• Terrascan

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• 1.18.0
• 1.18.1
• 1.18.2
• 1.18.3

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• free

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