High severityPythonSSRF & Path TraversalMEDIUM confidence
SSRF HTTP Request
A user-controlled value is used as the URL of an outbound HTTP request, enabling server-side request forgery (CWE-918).
Standards mapping
- OWASP Top 10
- A10:2021 - Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
- OWASP ASVS
- V12.6.1 (L1)
Vulnerable vs. safe
Flagged by this check
return requests.get(target)Passes - the safe pattern
return requests.get("https://api.internal.example.com/status")Why it matters & how to fix it
A user-controlled value is used as the URL of an outbound HTTP request, enabling server-side request forgery (CWE-918). Validate the destination against an allow-list of hosts/schemes, resolve and block internal/link- local addresses, and disable redirects for sensitive fetches.
References
Rule ID integsec-python-ssrf-http-request - engine: Opengrep - license: MIT - Copyright (c) IntegSec Inc.
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