CVE-2026-85740

HIGH CVSS 3.1: 7.1 EPSS 0.22%
Updated Sep 28, 2026
Hkuds
Parameter Value
CVSS 7.1 (HIGH)
Fixed In 1.5.5
Type CWE-918 (Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF))
Vendor Hkuds
Public PoC No

LightRAG provides simple and fast retrieval-augmented generation. Prior to 1.5.5, _validated_addresses in lightrag/parser/markdown/parser.py evaluates the literal resolved address with ipaddress.is_global without consistently classifying an IPv4 address embedded in an IPv6 transition wrapper. A caller who can upload a Markdown or textpack document can supply an external image URL using NAT64 64:ff9b::/96 or an IPv4-compatible form that embeds a loopback, private, or cloud-metadata IPv4 address.

On a deployment with compatible NAT64 or DNS64 routing, _download and _build_guarded_opener accept the wrapper and fetch the internal resource, whose body is then ingested. Current interpreter behavior already blocks some RFC 8215 and 6to4 forms, but the fixed guard handles all documented wrappers without becoming more permissive than the standard library. This issue is fixed in version 1.5.5.

Attack Parameters

Attack Vector
Network
Can be exploited remotely
Attack Complexity
High
Difficult to exploit
Privileges Required
Low
Basic privileges needed
User Interaction
None
No user interaction needed

Impact Assessment

Confidentiality
High
Complete data leak
Integrity
Low
Partial data modification
Availability
None
No disruption

CVSS Vector v3.1

Vulnerable Products

hkuds:lightrag