CVE-2026-55454 (GCVE-0-2026-55454)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-24 21:38 – Updated: 2026-06-25 15:11
VLAI
Title
Appsmith: Caddy admin API exposed without authentication
Summary
Appsmith is a platform to build admin panels, internal tools, and dashboards. Prior to 2.1, the bundled Caddy reverse-proxy's admin API — which has no authentication by default — is bound on 0.0.0.0:2019 inside the container. While this listener is not directly published to the host by docker-compose.yml, it is reachable from the Appsmith server process itself or a SSRF vulnerability. An authenticated low-privileged user can therefore drive the SSRF to issue POST /load (or any other admin-API call) against http://0.0.0.0:2019/, fully replacing the live Caddy configuration and taking over the reverse proxy. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.1.
Severity
9.9 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-749 - Exposed Dangerous Method or Function
  • CWE-1188 - Insecure Default Initialization of Resource
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
appsmithorg appsmith Affected: < 2.1
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