Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessAuthenticate as low-privileged user
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DeliveryStore crafted XHTML referencing internal URL
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ExploitTrigger PDF export rendering
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ExecutionServer fetches attacker URL (SSRF)
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ImpactLeak limited internal response data
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V4 - API and Web Service URL allowlisting, SSRF prevention
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 2 tactics: Initial Access, Credential Access The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Requires an authenticated YouTrack account (PR:L) with the ability to store XHTML content that is subsequently rendered by the server-side PDF export feature; the SSRF fires only when that stored content is exported to PDF. Limiting factors: attacker must hold a valid account on the target instance, must be able to inject into a stored field that reaches the PDF renderer, and impact is confined to confidentiality (C:L, no integrity or availability effect). Affected versions are YouTrack before 2026.2.18991; upgrading to that build or later remediates the issue. |
| Impact | This is a low-to-moderate priority issue despite being network-reachable. The CVSS 3.1 base score of 4.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N) reflects an authenticated SSRF with confidentiality-only impact and no integrity or availability effect. Exploitation requires an authenticated account (PR:L) capable of storing XHTML content that is later rendered during PDF export, so this is not an anonymous internet-facing threat. No EPSS score, CISA KEV listing, POC, or SSVC data is provided, so there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and no evidence of active exploitation. The SSRF is scope-unchanged (S:U) and limited to C:L, meaning the attacker can likely coax the server into issuing requests to internal endpoints and glean limited responses/metadata rather than achieve full internal resource disclosure. The realistic risk is an insider or low-privileged tenant user probing internal network services or cloud metadata endpoints from the YouTrack server. Overall this is a real but modest hardening fix, not an emergency; treat it as routine patching. Note: severity is vendor-reported (JetBrains) and no independent NVD enrichment or EPSS is present, so probability of exploitation cannot be quantified. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A low-privileged but authenticated YouTrack user stores crafted XHTML (e.g., an element referencing an internal URL) in an issue or field. When that content is later rendered during server-side PDF export, the YouTrack backend fetches the attacker-controlled URL, allowing the attacker to reach internal-only services or cloud metadata endpoints and receive limited responses. No public exploit code is identified at time of analysis. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Sep 30, 2026
Server-side request forgery in JetBrains YouTrack before 2026.2.18991 lets an authenticated user coerce the server-side PDF export renderer into making outbound requests to attacker-influenced URLs by storing crafted XHTML content that is rendered when that content is exported to PDF. The assessed impact is confidentiality-only (CVSS 3.1 base 4.3, AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N), and the attack requires a valid YouTrack account plus write access to a stored field that reaches the PDF renderer; no public exploit identified at time of analysis, and the issue is not in CISA KEV.
RemediationAI
Upgrade JetBrains YouTrack to 2026.2.18991 or later - that build is the vendor-stated fix boundary, and the change list is published at https://www.jetbrains.com/privacy-security/issues-fixed/. Until the upgrade can be scheduled, treat this as a low-to-moderate priority item and apply compensating controls that target the SSRF sink: restrict outbound network egress from the YouTrack host to an explicit allowlist so the server cannot reach cloud metadata endpoints (169.254.169.254, fd00:ec2::254) or internal admin services, accepting that legitimate link previews and externally hosted images may break; and, where PDF export is not business-critical, disable or gate that feature for untrusted users, with the trade-off that report generation becomes unavailable or must be run by administrators only. Because exploitation requires an authenticated account writing XHTML into a field that reaches the renderer, tightening who may create or edit issue and comment content on the instance reduces the attack surface, though it does not remove the underlying defect. Vendor-released patch: 2026.2.18991.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The root cause class is CWE-918 (Server-Side Request Forgery), triggered through a stored XHTML injection path rather than a classic URL parameter. YouTrack renders issue and comment content that can contain XHTML markup, and its PDF export feature processes that markup server-side using a rendering pipeline that resolves external resources (images, stylesheets, links, and similar references). Because the renderer follows URLs embedded in stored content and does not adequately validate or restrict the destination, an attacker who can persist XHTML into a field that is later exported can make the YouTrack server issue HTTP requests to arbitrary internal or external endpoints - for example internal admin interfaces or cloud instance metadata services - and observe behavioural differences to infer responses (a blind SSRF). The CPE entry cpe:2.3:a:jetbrains:youtrack:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* confirms the vendor/product scope as JetBrains YouTrack with an unbounded version wildcard, i.e. every build prior to the fixed 2026.2.18991 release. The CVSS vector's PR:L explicitly indicates an authenticated attacker, and the C:L/I:N/A:N metrics confirm the defect is a confidentiality/information-disclosure primitive only, with no demonstrated integrity or availability effect.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Network-reachable SSRF needing a low-privileged authenticated account (PR:L) to store content; server fetch yields limited internal data (C:L), no integrity/availability impact, scope unchanged.
Primary rating from Vendor (JetBrains).
CVSS VectorNVD
Lifecycle Timeline
1DescriptionNVD
In JetBrains YouTrack before 2026.2.18991 sSRF via stored XHTML injection was possible during PDF export
Threat Intelligence Overview
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SSVC AssessmentENISA
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Attack Technique
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EUVD-2026-90001
GHSA-cr25-22xp-44g2
NVD
CVE.org
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