CVE-2022-29188: Smokescreen SSRF via deny list bypass (square brackets) in Smokescreen

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2022-05-21 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-918

Description

Smokescreen is an HTTP proxy. The primary use case for Smokescreen is to prevent server-side request forgery (SSRF) attacks in which external attackers leverage the behavior of applications to connect to or scan internal infrastructure. Smokescreen also offers an option to deny access to additional (e.g., external) URLs by way of a deny list. There was an issue in Smokescreen that made it possible to bypass the deny list feature by surrounding the hostname with square brackets (e.g. `[example.com]`). This only impacted the HTTP proxy functionality of Smokescreen. HTTPS requests were not impacted. Smokescreen version 0.0.4 contains a patch for this issue.

Affected products

stripe smokescreen: before 0.0.4 — fixed in 0.0.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: stripe smokescreen 0.0.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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