CVE-2026-40242 PoC — Arcane Unauthenticated SSRF with Conditional Response Reflection in Template Fetch Endpoint

Source

https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2026/CVE-2026-40242.yaml

Associated Vulnerability

Title:Arcane Unauthenticated SSRF with Conditional Response Reflection in Template Fetch Endpoint (CVE-2026-40242)
Description:Arcane is an interface for managing Docker containers, images, networks, and volumes. Prior to 1.17.3, the /api/templates/fetch endpoint accepts a caller-supplied url parameter and performs a server-side HTTP GET request to that URL without authentication and without URL scheme or host validation. The server's response is returned directly to the caller. type. This constitutes an unauthenticated SSRF vulnerability affecting any publicly reachable Arcane instance. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.17.3.

Description

Arcane <= 1.17.3 contains an unauthenticated server-side request forgery caused by lack of URL scheme and host validation in /api/templates/fetch endpoint, letting remote attackers perform SSRF, exploit requires no authentication.

File Snapshot


 id: CVE-2026-40242

info:
  name: Arcane <= 1.17.2 - Server-Side Request Forgery
  author: 0x_Akoko


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