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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2026-42181 EUVD-2026-28820GHSA-h6hf-9846-xwrq

Lemmy: SSRF and internal image disclosure in post link metadata via unvalidated og:image

Published May 8, 2026 · Updated May 11, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Lemmy is a link aggregator and forum for the fediverse. Prior to version 0.19.18, Lemmy fetches metadata for user-supplied post URLs and, under the default StoreLinkPreviews image mode, downloads the preview image through local pict-rs. While the top-level page URL is checked against internal IP ranges, the extracted og:image URL is not subject to the same restriction. As a result, an authenticated low-privileged user can submit an attacker-controlled public page whose Open Graph image points to an internal image endpoint. Lemmy will fetch that internal image server-side and store a local thumbnail that can then be served back to users. This issue has been patched in version 0.19.18.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
LemmyNet lemmy < 0.19.18 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
crates.io lemmy_api_common < 0.19.18 0.19.18 GHSA-h6hf-9846-xwrq

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