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Critical · 9.0 CVE-2026-77972 EEF-CVE-2026-77972EUVD-2026-78676GHSA-pqwh-q74p-w7h4

safeurl validated address is not bound to the request, allowing DNS rebinding

Published Sep 15, 2026 · Updated Sep 21, 2026 · Assigned by EEF

Description

Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition in Slab safeurl allows an attacker who controls a hostname's DNS responses to reach internal network destinations that validation rejected.

Validation returns a verdict and not the address it approved, so the HTTP clients the library ships receive the original hostname and resolve it a second time when the request is made. An attacker who controls the authoritative DNS for a name can answer the first lookup with a permitted address and the second with a blocked one, and the request then reaches a destination validation never approved. The same window opens without an attacker whenever a name legitimately resolves to different addresses across lookups, such as short record lifetimes or rotation between several addresses.

This issue affects safeurl: from 0.1.0 onward.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Slab safeurl 0.1.0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Hex safeurl >= 0.1.0 — EEF-CVE-2026-77972

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