Summary
The connection-test endpoint opened a raw TCP socket to the user-supplied database
host without resolving and range-checking the destination, so private and link-local
addresses (including IPv4-mapped IPv6 forms and localhost) reached the driver.
Details
A new validateDbConnectionHost helper resolves hostnames through DNS, parses each
address with ipaddr.js, normalises IPv4-mapped IPv6, and rejects addresses in the
private, loopback, link-local, unique-local, reserved, unspecified, broadcast, and
carrier-grade-NAT ranges. 0.0.0.0, ::, and the literal localhost are special-cased.
The check runs before the existing SSL block in the connection-test controller and
gates the driver invocation.
Impact
Authenticated users with connection-test permission could probe internal services
(Redis, the cloud metadata endpoint, internal databases) reachable from the NocoDB
process. A DNS rebinding attacker could still race the resolve-vs-connect window.
Credit
This issue was reported by @helwor-01.
References
Summary
The connection-test endpoint opened a raw TCP socket to the user-supplied database
host without resolving and range-checking the destination, so private and link-local
addresses (including IPv4-mapped IPv6 forms and
localhost) reached the driver.Details
A new
validateDbConnectionHosthelper resolves hostnames through DNS, parses eachaddress with
ipaddr.js, normalises IPv4-mapped IPv6, and rejects addresses in theprivate, loopback, link-local, unique-local, reserved, unspecified, broadcast, and
carrier-grade-NAT ranges.
0.0.0.0,::, and the literallocalhostare special-cased.The check runs before the existing SSL block in the connection-test controller and
gates the driver invocation.
Impact
Authenticated users with connection-test permission could probe internal services
(Redis, the cloud metadata endpoint, internal databases) reachable from the NocoDB
process. A DNS rebinding attacker could still race the resolve-vs-connect window.
Credit
This issue was reported by @helwor-01.
References