--- id: CVE-2026-50552 aliases: - GHSA-jr4p-4xjh-fwvw title: >- Koel: Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) in radio station creation due to missing validation bail summary: >- Koel: Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) in radio station creation due to missing validation bail severity: medium cvss: 6.3 cwe: - CWE-918 vendor: phanan product: phanan/koel ecosystem: composer affected: - phanan/koel <= 9.7.0 patched: - phanan/koel 9.7.1 published: '2026-07-15' updated: '2026-07-15' source: GHSA sourceUrl: 'https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jr4p-4xjh-fwvw' references: - url: 'https://github.com/koel/koel/security/advisories/GHSA-jr4p-4xjh-fwvw' - url: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-50552' - url: 'https://github.com/koel/koel/pull/2549' - url: >- https://github.com/koel/koel/commit/5f6ce2cefd08f437a269236b677ad971517ccbb6 - url: 'https://github.com/koel/koel/releases/tag/v9.7.1' - url: 'https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jr4p-4xjh-fwvw' tags: - ghsa - composer epss: 0.00169 epssPercentile: 0.06628 ingestedAt: '2026-07-15T18:45:16.914Z' --- ## Overview Summary Koel v9.5.0 contains a Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in the radio station creation endpoint (POST /api/radio/stations). The url field validation rules are declared without the bail keyword, so the HasAudioContentType rule — which issues HTTP requests to the supplied URL — still executes even after the SafeUrl rule has rejected the URL as pointing to a private/reserved address. Any authenticated, non-admin user can therefore coerce the server into making HEAD/GET requests to arbitrary internal hosts. This is a blind SSRF: the response body is never returned to the client, but the two distinct validation error messages form a reliable internal-network reachability oracle. Severity Medium — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N (5.4) Authenticated (low-privilege) actor; blind SSRF (no response-body exfiltration). Confidentiality (L) reflects the internal reachability oracle; Integrity (L) reflects state-changing internal endpoints that act on GET/HEAD. Affected Component - Version: Koel v9.5.0 (latest release, HEAD b2e9a34, verified 2026-05-30) - Endpoint: POST /api/radio/stations - Files: - app/Http/Requests/API/Radio/RadioStationStoreRequest.php (missing bail) - app/Rules/HasAudioContentType.php (unguarded HTTP fetch) Root Cause app/Http/Requests/API/Radio/RadioStationStoreRequest.php (lines 25-34): 'url' => [ 'required', 'url', Rule::unique('radio_stations')->where(function ($query) { return $query->where('user_id', $this->user()->id); }), new SafeUrl(), new HasAudioContentType(), ], In Laravel, validation rules within a single attribute run in sequence and do not stop on the first failure unless bail is present or FormRequest::$stopOnFirstFailure is set. Neither is the case here (App\Http\Requests\Request does not override stopOnFirstFailure, and authorize() simply returns true). For a directly-supplied private/reserved address (e.g. http://169.254.169.254, http://127.0.0.1:6379, http://192.168.0.1): 1. SafeUrl (app/Rules/SafeUrl.php lines 45-49) calls isPublicHost($uri->host()), fails it, calls $fail(...) and returns. SafeUrl itself does not make a request in this path — good. 2. Because there is no bail, validation continues to HasAudioContentType. 3. HasAudioContentType::resolveContentType() (app/Rules/HasAudioContentType.php lines 41-57) issues the request with no IP/host validation of its own: private function resolveContentType(string $url): string { try { $response = Http::head($url); // <-- SSRF if ($response->successful()) { return $response->header('Content-Type'); } } catch (Throwable) { } // Falls back to a streaming GET $response = Http::withHeaders(['Icy-MetaData' => '1']) ->withOptions(['stream' => true]) ->get($url); // <-- SSRF return $response->header('Content-Type'); } The rule's own docblock (line 13-14) states "Should be used after SafeUrl to ensure the URL is safe to reach." — that assumption is silently violated by the missing bail. Authorization Context The endpoint is reachable by any authenticated user, not just admins: - routes/api.base.php line 108 wraps the route group in Route::middleware('auth') only. - routes/api.base.php line 268: Route::apiResource('stations', RadioStationController::class). - RadioStationController::store() (lines 31-37) carries only #[DisabledInDemo] — no $this->authorize(...), no #[RequiresPlus], no permission check. Reachability Oracle (Information Disclosure) HasAudioContentType::validate() returns two distinct messages: - Host unreachable / request throws → "The url couldn't be reached." (line 26) - Host reachable but Content-Type is not audio/* → "The url doesn't look like a valid radio station URL." (line 32) By diffing these responses an attacker can enumerate which internal hosts/ports are live behind the firewall (internal host discovery and coarse port scanning). Proof of Concept As any regular authenticated user: POST /api/radio/stations HTTP/1.1 Host: koel.example.com Authorization: Bearer Content-Type: application/json { "name": "probe", "url": "http://127.0.0.1:6379" } - If the internal service answers → "The url doesn't look like a valid radio station URL." - If nothing is listening → "The url couldn't be reached." The server has now issued a HEAD and a streaming GET to 127.0.0.1:6379 despite SafeUrl having rejected it. Impact - Blind SSRF: server-side HEAD/GET to attacker-chosen internal addresses. The response body is never returned to the client, so this cannot directly exfiltrate content (e.g. cloud-metadata bodies). - Internal reachability oracle: reliable live-host / open-port discovery via the two distinct error strings. - Side-effect requests: any internal endpoint that performs a state-changing action on GET/HEAD can be triggered. Note on scope: because SafeUrl calls $fail() for a private host, the overall request validation fails (Laravel aggregates all rule failures; a single failure yields a 422), so RadioStationController::store() never runs and no station is persisted. The impact is therefore limited to the out-of-band HEAD/GET requests issued by HasAudioContentType during validation, plus the reachability oracle — it does not chain into a stored station or into the authenticated radio stream proxy via this path. Recommended Fix Add bail so HasAudioContentType only runs after SafeUrl passes, restoring the rule's documented precondition: 'url' => [ 'required', 'url', 'bail', Rule::unique('radio_stations')->where(/* ... */), new SafeUrl(), new HasAudioContentType(), ], (Place bail before SafeUrl/HasAudioContentType; the unique check is local DB only and safe to keep ahead of it if preferred.) Defense in depth Have HasAudioContentType::resolveContentType() re-validate the host with Network::isPublicHost() (or reuse Network::isSafeUrl()) before issuing any request, so the rule is safe regardless of ordering. The same Network helper is already used by PodcastService for enclosure URLs. Relationship to CVE-2026-47260 CVE-2026-47260 addressed SSRF via podcast episode enclosure URLs; the current code guards that sink in app/Services/Podcast/PodcastService.php (line 143) with Network::isSafeUrl(). The radio-station path relies instead on the SafeUrl validation rule, but the missing bail lets the adjacent HasAudioContentType fetch run anyway — leaving an SSRF reachable from the same class of untrusted, user-supplied URLs. I have not been able to confirm the exact upstream fix commit for CVE-2026-47260 from the release tarball, so I am presenting this as an independent finding rather than asserting it is the same code change. Disclosure - 2026-05-30: Identified via source review of v9.5.0 (b2e9a34). - Verified entirely by source inspection (route middleware, controller, FormRequest base class, and both validation rules). No live PoC was executed against a third-party host. If the maintainers agree this is a distinct issue, would you consider requesting a CVE identifier for it through GitHub Security Advisories? Happy to provide any further detail or testing. ## Affected packages - `phanan/koel <= 9.7.0` ## Remediation Upgrade to a patched release: - `phanan/koel 9.7.1`