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JetBrains YouTrack EUVDEUVD-2026-90001

| CVE-2026-100257 MEDIUM
Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) (CWE-918)
2026-09-30 JetBrains GHSA-cr25-22xp-44g2
4.3
CVSS 3.1 · NVD
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Attack ChainAIDerived

Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain

  1. Access
    Authenticate as low-privileged user
  2. Delivery
    Store crafted XHTML referencing internal URL
  3. Exploit
    Trigger PDF export rendering
  4. Execution
    Server fetches attacker URL (SSRF)
  5. Impact
    Leak limited internal response data

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
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.

This Month Plan within 30 days. Why: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9).
Patch available 0.3% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – 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

YouTrack 0 <2026.2.18991

Affected Packages

euvd youtrack fix: 2026.2.18991

Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)

Affects your stack

Affects 1 package in euvd

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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

Vendor (JetBrains) PRIMARY MEDIUM
NVD 4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
vuln.today AI 4.3 MEDIUM

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.

3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Primary rating from Vendor (JetBrains).

CVSS VectorNVD

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None

Lifecycle Timeline

1
Patch available
Sep 30, 2026 - 16:04 EUVD

DescriptionNVD

In JetBrains YouTrack before 2026.2.18991 sSRF via stored XHTML injection was possible during PDF export

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.3%
Top 83% exploitable
Prevalence
Medium
popular commercial issue-tracking server, common in dev teams but not ubiquitous
Data Quality
5 sources
Confidence: Medium

How this decision was reached

The engine reads each signal below and applies a fixed list of rules from top to bottom. The first rule that matches sets the recommended action – like a statement, every line is shown.

SignalValue
Severity MEDIUM
CISA KEV No
Public POC No
EPSS 0.3%
Patch available Yes
Active threat No
Deciding rule
MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9)
What every action level means
Emergency Immediate action required. Criteria: CRITICAL + in CISA KEV (actively exploited) without patch, OR CRITICAL + EPSS > 30% without patch, OR CRITICAL + active threat signals without patch.
Act Now Prioritize within 24-48h. Criteria: in KEV with patch available, OR CRITICAL + public POC, OR HIGH + EPSS > 10%, OR CRITICAL + active threat, OR any CRITICAL severity.
This Week Schedule remediation this week. Criteria: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9). Patch within normal change window.
This Month Plan within 30 days. Criteria: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9), lower exploitation probability. Include in regular patch cycle.
Monitor Track and reassess. Criteria: LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9), minimal exploitation risk. No immediate action needed.

SSVC AssessmentENISA

SSVC Decision· derived
Scheduled
Exploitation
None
System Exposure· derived
Open
Automatable
No
Human Impact· derived
Medium
Technical Impact
Partial

Priority Score

22
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +22
PoC: 0
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

Attack Technique

Server-Side Request Forgery exploits applications that fetch remote resources based on user-supplied URLs.

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