Description

Ghost: Private IP Filtering Bypass via IPv6 Transition Addresses

Impact

A validation issue allowed some functionality, such as Webmentions, to be abused by an unauthenticated user to make limited HTTP requests to hosts in the Ghost server's internal network on some network configurations. A successful attack would not result in any response data being returned.

Vulnerable versions

This vulnerability is present in Ghost from v6.0.9 up to v6.64.0.

Patches

v6.65.0 contains a fix for this issue.

How to update

For self-hosters using Docker, find Docker's official Ghost image here. Updating a Docker-based Ghost instance is documented here.

If your Ghost is a Ghost-CLI install see our documentation on updating it to the latest version here.

References

Ghost thanks Nhat Anh Vu for disclosing this vulnerability responsibly.

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, email us at security@ghost.org.

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