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CVE-2026-85740: lightrag-hku: SSRF via IPv6-transition address bypass (NAT64, IPv4-compatible, 6to4) of the native-markdown image-download guard

September 22, 2026

LightRAG’s native markdown parser downloads external images referenced by an uploaded markdown or textpack document. The only SSRF guard, _validated_addresses() in lightrag/parser/markdown/parser.py, resolves the image host and rejects it when the resolved IP is not is_global. That check is evaluated on the raw resolved address and never decodes IPv6 transition wrappers that embed an internal IPv4. Python’s ipaddress classifies a NAT64 (64:ff9b::/96 and the RFC 8215 64:ff9b:1::/48 prefix), IPv4-compatible (::a.b.c.d), or 6to4 (2002::/16) literal that wraps an internal IPv4 as globally routable, so the guard passes it. On a host with NAT64/DNS64 routing the request is then delivered to the embedded internal target (loopback, RFC1918, or a cloud metadata endpoint), and the fetched body is ingested. The plain and IPv4-mapped (::ffff:) forms of the same internal address are correctly blocked, so this is an encoding that defeats the existing filter.

References

  • github.com/HKUDS/LightRAG/commit/9207e7fd10cf6df3cf26e3dd1921490b34a2f132
  • github.com/HKUDS/LightRAG/commit/a25862177a9b00e0edb870778a42b4155924de09
  • github.com/HKUDS/LightRAG/commit/c598545aa0084a427bcb19a84ade5e0ec31fa673
  • github.com/HKUDS/LightRAG/pull/3426
  • github.com/HKUDS/LightRAG/releases/tag/v1.5.5
  • github.com/HKUDS/LightRAG/security/advisories/GHSA-vv3m-f8x4-7377
  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-vv3m-f8x4-7377
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-85740

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Affected versions

All versions before 1.5.5

Fixed versions

  • 1.5.5

Solution

Upgrade to version 1.5.5 or above.

Impact 7.1 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N

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Weakness

  • CWE-918: Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

Source file

pypi/lightrag-hku/CVE-2026-85740.yml

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