mealie-recipes Mealie AsyncSafeTransport transport.py server-side request forgery

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in mealie-recipes Mealie. This affects an unknown function of the file mealie/pkgs/safehttp/transport.py of the component AsyncSafeTransport. Such manipulation leads to server-side request forgery. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2026-71210. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability was found in mealie-recipes Mealie (affected version not known). It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file mealie/pkgs/safehttp/transport.py of the component AsyncSafeTransport. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a server-side request forgery vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to 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. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

Mealie's AsyncSafeTransport SSRF guard (mealie/pkgs/safehttp/transport.py) resolves a target hostname once, checks the resolved IP against private-range rules, but then issues the actual outbound HTTP request using the original hostname, which the underlying async transport re-resolves independently. Because the validated IP is never pinned to the actual connection, a DNS-rebinding attacker (returning a public IP to the validation lookup and a private/metadata IP to the real connection) defeats the guard. This is reachable by any authenticated user via /api/recipes/create/url, /api/recipes/test-scrape-url, and /api/recipes/{slug}/image, and the scraper reflects fetched content back to the requester, allowing an authenticated user to read internal HTTP services and cloud-metadata endpoints.

The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-71210 since 08/05/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 08/05/2026).

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

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2026-53207). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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