CVE-2026-33992 - pyLoad: Server-Side Request Forgery via Download Link Submission Enables Cloud Metadata Exfiltration

CVE-2026-33992 - pyLoad: Server-Side Request Forgery via Download Link Submission Enables Cloud Metadata Exfiltration

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CVE ID :CVE-2026-33992
Published : March 27, 2026, 11:17 p.m. | 1 hour, 48 minutes ago
Description :pyLoad is a free and open-source download manager written in Python. Prior to version 0.5.0b3.dev97, PyLoad's download engine accepts arbitrary URLs without validation, enabling Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) attacks. An authenticated attacker can exploit this to access internal network services and exfiltrate cloud provider metadata. On DigitalOcean droplets, this exposes sensitive infrastructure data including droplet ID, network configuration, region, authentication keys, and SSH keys configured in user-data/cloud-init. Version 0.5.0b3.dev97 contains a patch.
Severity: 9.3 | CRITICAL
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