CVE-2026-10177: Aider has an SSRF vulnerability through its AWS EC2 Metadata Endpoint

May 31, 2026 (updated July 7, 2026)

A security vulnerability has been detected in Aider-AI Aider 0.86.3.dev. This affects the function requests.get of the file api_docs.py of the component AWS EC2 Metadata Endpoint. The manipulation leads to server-side request forgery. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. The exploit has been disclosed publicly and may be used. It is suggested to install a patch to address this issue. The pull request to fix this issue awaits acceptance.

References

github.com/Aider-AI/aider
github.com/Aider-AI/aider/issues/5075
github.com/Aider-AI/aider/pull/5137
github.com/advisories/GHSA-hchg-qm84-cj9p
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-10177
vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-10177
vuldb.com/submit/819911
vuldb.com/vuln/367458
vuldb.com/vuln/367458/cti

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