OeditusCredo.Check.Security.SSRFVulnerability (OeditusCredo v0.6.1)

Basics

This check has a base priority of higher and works with any version of Elixir.

Explanation

Detects potential Server-Side Request Forgery vulnerabilities (CWE-918).

Making outbound HTTP requests to user-controlled URLs can expose internal services and metadata endpoints.

Bad:

HTTPoison.get(params["url"])
Req.get(url: user_url)
Tesla.get(client, user_url)

Good:

# validate host/domain against allowlist before request
uri = URI.parse(url)
if uri.host in @allowed_hosts, do: HTTPoison.get(url)

Check-Specific Parameters

Use the following parameters to configure this check:

:exclude_test_files

Set to true to skip test files (default: false)

This parameter defaults to nil.

:extra_http_modules

Additional HTTP module atom lists to check, e.g. [[:MyHTTP]] (default: [])

This parameter defaults to nil.

General Parameters

Like with all checks, general params can be applied.

Parameters can be configured via the .credo.exs config file.