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CVE-2026-50112: Apache CloudStack: RCE and SSRF in direct download, metalink and NFS templates
- Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2026-08-21 · updated 2026-10-16
- Weakness: CWE-78
Description
SSRF via Metalink Mirror URL Resolution: An authenticated tenant can register a template pointing to an attacker-controlled metalink file containing internal targets. The Secondary Storage VM will retrieve the data and persist it as a template file, which can later be downloaded through normal APIs. RCE on KVM hypervisor via NFS, Metalink files with/without Direct Downloads: An authenticated CloudStack tenant holding the default User role can execute arbitrary shell commands as root on the KVM hypervisor host that runs other tenants' VMs. This is cross-tenant root on the underlying compute, reachable via the public CloudStack API. When a User registers a VM template with directDownload=true and a URL pointing to a .metalink file, the management server fetches the metalink XML and dispatches download to the KVM agent. Inner URLs inside the metalink XML are never re-validated against the scheme allowlist. These issues affect Apache CloudStack: from 4.14.0.0 through 4.20.3.0 and from 4.21.0.0 through 4.22.1.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 4.20.3.1 or 4.22.1.1 or later, which fixes the issue.
Affected products
- Apache Software Foundation Apache CloudStack: from 4.14.0.0 before 4.20.3.1; from 4.21.0.0 before 4.22.1.1 — fixed in 4.20.3.1, 4.22.1.1
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: Apache Software Foundation Apache CloudStack 4.20.3.1, 4.22.1.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
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