CVE-2025-46341 Privilege escalation via SSRF when using HTTP auth
An attacker with an account can exploit SSRF in FreshRSS to impersonate users and escalate privileges when HTTP auth via reverse proxy is enabled.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-46341?
CVE-2025-46341 is a high-severity server-side request forgery vulnerability in FreshRSS, published on 4 Jun 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
FreshRSS is a self-hosted RSS feed aggregator. Prior to version 1.26.2, when the server is using HTTP auth via reverse proxy, it's possible to impersonate any user either via the `Remote-User` header or the `X-WebAuth-User` header by making specially crafted requests via the add feed functionality and obtaining the CSRF token via XPath scraping. The attacker has to know the IP address of the proxied FreshRSS instance and the admin's username, while also having an account on the instance. An attacker can send specially crafted requests in order to gain unauthorized access to internal services. This can also lead to privilege escalation like in the demonstrated scenario, although users that have setup OIDC are not affected by privilege escalation. Version 1.26.2 contains a patch for the issue.
Weakness: CWE-918
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-46341?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Freshrss Freshrss.
How do I fix CVE-2025-46341?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-46341 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and send outbound requests through an allow-list that blocks internal addresses. More about Server-side request forgery.
Is CVE-2025-46341 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-46341 exists.
Other vulnerabilities in FreshRSS
- CVE-2025-54875 FreshRSS: Unauthorized creation of admin user when registration is enabled
- CVE-2025-54592 FreshRSS has Incomplete Session Termination on Logout
- CVE-2025-62166 FreshRSS has an IDOR which allows for viewing feeds of any user and leaking tokens
- CVE-2025-54591 FreshRSS: Unauthenticated users can view default user's information
- CVE-2025-58173 FreshRSS vulnerable to authenticated RCE via path traversal inside include()
Sources
Also known as GHSA-w3m8-wcf4-h8vm.