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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.9

CVE-2026-69198 json

ip-address: a CIDR suffix on the parsed address suppresses special-use classification and can bypass SSRF and trust-boundary checks

published 2026-08-03 3 mo ago modified 2026-10-23 16 d ago also GHSA-4xrf-jv44-h6hh , EUVD-2026-52422

cvss
6.9
version 4.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 41%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

ip-address is a library for parsing and manipulating IPv4 and IPv6 addresses in JavaScript. From 10.1.1 until 10.2.2, every special-use classification method is built on isInSubnet, which short-circuits to false whenever the address's own subnet mask is shorter than the reference range's mask. That mask comes verbatim from the CIDR suffix on the parsed input, so appending a suffix such as /0 suppresses classification entirely: isLoopback(), isPrivate(), isLinkLocal(), isCGNAT(), isMulticast(), isUnspecified(), isBroadcast(), isULA(), and getType() all report an internal address as unremarkable, while correctForm() and address still return the real internal target. An application that builds a network trust-boundary decision on these checks, for example a filter intended to block Server-Side Request Forgery, or SSRF, may therefore treat an internal target as external and allow the request. The underlying bit comparison is correct, and mask(n) already returns the first n bits of the full parsed address independently of subnetMask; the defect is solely that the containment guard sits in the classification path. This issue is fixed in version 10.2.2.

Patch / fix

  • npm ip-address 10.2.2
  • node-ip-address Debian 14 10.3.1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-69198

  • grafana13.1 hummingbird 1 13.1.1-0.5.2.hum1
  • grafana12.4 hummingbird 1 12.4.6-0.3.hum1

red hat advisories RHSA-2026:50826RHSA-2026:49401

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-69198 updated cvss 5.3

ip-address: ip-address: Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) and trust-boundary bypass

  • Red Hat Cryostat 4 cryostat/cryostat-openshift-console-plugin-rhel9 Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Containers rhmtc/openshift-migration-ui-rhel8 Red Hat Multicluster Engine for Kubernetes multicluster-engine/console-mce-rhel9 Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines openshift-pipelines/pipelines-console-plugin-rhel8 Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 3 openshift-service-mesh/kiali-rhel9, openshift-service-mesh/kiali-ossmc-rhel9 Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2 rhacm2/console-rhel9
    +15 more products
    Red Hat AMQ Broker 7 ip-address 10.1.1 Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 ansible-automation-platform-27/mcp-server-rhel9, ansible-automation-platform-tech-preview/mcp-server-rhel9 Red Hat build of Apache Camel - HawtIO 4 ip-address 10.1.1 Red Hat build of Apache Camel for Spring Boot 4 ip-address 10.1.1 Red Hat Build of Podman Desktop rh-podman-desktop.git 1.1.0 Red Hat Connectivity Link 1 rhcl-1/rhcl-console-plugin-rhel9 Red Hat Developer Hub 1 rhdh/rhdh-hub-rhel9, rhdh/red-hat-developer-hub-backstage-plugin-lightspeed, rhdh/red-hat-developer-hub-backstage-plugin-orchestrator, rhdh/red-hat-developer-hub-backstage-plugin-lightspeed-backend, rhdh/red-hat-developer-hub-backstage-plugin-orchestrator-backend, rhdh/red-hat-developer-hub-backstage-plugin-orchestrator-form-widgets, +2 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 npm, nodejs, nodejs-libs, ubi8/s2i-base, nodejs-nodemon, ubi8/nodejs-22, +6 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 npm, rust, cargo, clippy, nodejs, rustfmt, +18 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 ubi10/s2i-base, ubi10/nodejs-22, ubi10/nodejs-24, rust 1.97.1-1.el10, ubi10/nodejs-22-minimal, ubi10/nodejs-24-minimal, +2 more Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift4/ose-console, openshift4/ose-console-rhel9, openshift4/ose-agent-installer-ui-rhel9 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5 openshift5/ose-console-rhel9, openshift5/ose-agent-installer-ui-rhel9 Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces devspaces/udi-rhel9, devspaces/code-rhel9, devspaces/openvsx-rhel9, devspaces/dashboard-rhel9, devspaces/pluginregistry-rhel9 Red Hat Satellite 6 satellite/iop-remediations-rhel9 Red Hat Self-service automation portal 2 ansible-automation-platform/automation-portal, ansible-automation-platform/bootc-automation-portal-rhel9
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Hardened Images grafana12.4 12.4.6-0.3.hum1, grafana13.1 13.1.1-0.5.2.hum1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:49401
  • Red Hat Cryostat 4 grafana-infinity-datasource-npm 3.7.2_redhat_00002-1, cryostat-openshift-console-plugin-npm 4.2.0_redhat_00003-1 Red Hat Exploit Intelligence exploit-intelligence-tech-preview/vulnerability-analysis-rhel9 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) 3 rust 1.97.1-1.el10, rhelai3/bootc-cuda-rhel9, rhelai3/bootc-rocm-rhel9, rhelai3/bootc-gaudi-rhel9, rhelai3/disk-image-cuda-rhel9
    not affected: vulnerable code not present
  • Red Hat Hardened Images rust 1.97.1-1.el10
    not affected: component not present
  • Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) rhoai/odh-workbench-codeserver-datascience-cpu-py312-rhel9
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
3 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.48% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 41% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/beaugunderson/ip-address/security/advisories/GHSA-4xrf-jv44-h6hh referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 6.9 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N
CNA 4.0 6.9 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm ip-address
>=10.1.1, <10.2.2
10.2.2

Affected products

  • beaugunderson ip-address

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation
  • CWE-918 Server-Side Request Forgery

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.