CVE-2026-77972

Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition in Slab safeurl allows an attacker who controls a hostname's DNS responses to reach internal network destinations that validation rejected. Validation returns a verdict and not the address it approved, so the HTTP clients the library ships receive the original hostname and resolve it a second time when the request is made. An attacker who controls the authoritative DNS for a name can answer the first lookup with a permitted address and the second with a blocked one, and the request then reaches a destination validation never approved. The same window opens without an attacker whenever a name legitimately resolves to different addresses across lookups, such as short record lifetimes or rotation between several addresses. This issue affects safeurl: from 0.1.0 onward.

CVSS

No CVSS.

References

Link	Resource
https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-77972.html
https://github.com/slab/safeurl-elixir/commit/feabbd0a13f83028ab24b71710526e9da9841f70
https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-77972

Configurations

No configuration.

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2026-09-15 16:17

Updated : 2026-09-15 16:17

NVD link : CVE-2026-77972

Mitre link : CVE-2026-77972

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-77972

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Products Affected

No product.

CWE

CWE-367

Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

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