CVE-2026-33752

CVE-2026-33752(Redirect-based SSRF leading to internal network access in curl_cffi)

Summary

curl_cffi does not restrict requests to internal IP ranges, and follows redirects automatically via the underlying libcurl.

Because of this, an attacker-controlled URL can redirect requests to internal services such as cloud metadata endpoints. In addition, curl_cffi’s TLS impersonation feature can make these requests appear as legitimate browser traffic, which may bypass certain network controls.

Details

The issue comes from how curl_cffi handles outbound requests

• User-supplied URLs are passed directly to libcurl without checking whether they resolve to internal IP ranges (e.g., 127.0.0.1, 169.254.0.0/16).
• Redirects are automatically followed (CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION = 1) inside libcurl.
• There is no validation of redirect destinations at the Python layer.

This means that even if an application only allows requests to external URLs, an attacker can

• Provide a URL pointing to an attacker-controlled server
• Return a redirect response pointing to an internal service
• Have curl_cffi follow that redirect automatically

As a result, internal endpoints (such as cloud instance metadata APIs) can be accessed.

Additionally, curl_cffi supports TLS fingerprint impersonation (e.g., impersonate="chrome"). In environments where outbound requests are filtered based on TLS fingerprinting, this can make such requests harder to detect or block

This behavior is similar to previously reported redirect-based SSRF issues such as CVE-2025-68616, where redirects allowed access to unintended internal resources.

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