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CVE-2026-56285
7.7 HIGH
- CVSS version (CVSS): 4.0
- Attack Vector (AV): Network (N)
- Attack Complexity (AC): Low (L)
- Attack Requirement (AT): None (N)
- Privileges Required (PR): None (N)
- User Interaction (UI): None (N)
- Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (VC): None (N)
- Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (VI): Low (L)
- Vulnerable System Impact Availability (VA): None (N)
- Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (SC): High (H)
- Subsequent System Impact Integrity (SI): None (N)
- Subsequent System Impact Availability (SA): None (N)
- Modified Attack Vector (MAV): Network (N)
- Modified Attack Complexity (MAC): Low (L)
- Modified Attack Requirement (MAT): None (N)
- Modified Privileges Required (MPR): None (N)
- Modified User Interaction (MUI): None (N)
- Modified Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (MVC): None (N)
- Modified Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (MVI): Low (L)
- Modified Vulnerable System Impact Availability (MVA): None (N)
- Modified Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (MSC): High (H)
- Modified Subsequent System Impact Integrity (MSI): Negligible (N)
- Modified Subsequent System Impact Availability (MSA): Negligible (N)
- Safety (S): Not Defined (X)
- Automatable (AU): Not Defined (X)
- Recovery (R): Not Defined (X)
- Value Density (V): Not Defined (X)
- Vulnerability Response Effort (RE): Not Defined (X)
- Provider Urgency (U): Not Defined (X)
- Confidentiality Req. (CR): Not Defined (X)
- Integrity Req. (IR): Not Defined (X)
- Availability Req. (AR): Not Defined (X)
- Exploit Maturity (E): Not Defined (X)
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Nitter - Server-Side Request Forgery in /video Media Proxy Endpoint
Nitter's /video media proxy endpoint fails to validate target URLs against Twitter/X domains and uses a hardcoded default HMAC key, allowing unauthenticated attackers to compute valid HMACs for arbitrary URLs. Attackers can retrieve HTTP responses from any host reachable by the server, including cloud metadata services and internal network resources.
References
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Patch Commmit patch
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https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/nitter-server-side-request-forgery-in-vide… third-party-advisory
Affected products
nitter
- <44b2f096f67da2cc257a0e262a94a7ae79e95d47
Matching in nixpkgs
pkgs.nitter
Alternative Twitter front-end
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nixos-unstable 0-unstable-2026-01-29
- nixpkgs-unstable 0-unstable-2026-01-29
- nixos-unstable-small 0-unstable-2026-01-29
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nixos-26.05 0-unstable-2026-01-29
- nixos-26.05-small 0-unstable-2026-01-29
- nixpkgs-26.05-darwin 0-unstable-2026-01-29
Package maintainers
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@Infinidoge Infinidoge <infinidoge@inx.moe>
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@erdnaxe Alexandre Iooss <erdnaxe@crans.org>