CVE-2026-50112
HighCVSS 8.8Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk38th percentile - higher than 38% of all known CVEs
Summary
SSRF via Metalink mirror URL resolution and RCE on KVM hypervisor. An authenticated tenant can register a template pointing to an attacker-controlled metalink file containing internal targets. The Secondary Storage VM will retrieve the data and persist it as a template file. Additionally, an authenticated tenant with the default User role can execute arbitrary shell commands as root on the KVM hypervisor host. Affects versions from 4.14.0.0 through 4.20.3.0 and from 4.21.0.0 through 4.22.1.0.
Risk Assessment
An attacker can achieve remote code execution on the KVM hypervisor, leading to full infrastructure compromise and breach of tenant isolation.
Recommendation
Upgrade to version 4.20.3.1 or 4.22.1.1 or later, which fixes the issue.
Other vulnerabilities in Apache CloudStack
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Improper Access Control vulnerability in Apache CloudStack's Kubernetes Service (CKS) plugin, allowing cross-tenant manipulation of the Kubernetes cluster while adding and removing nodes. Affects versions from 4.21.0.0 through 4.22.1.0.
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Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output vulnerability in Apache CloudStack's UI while using Instance Reset Password functionality. Affects versions from 4.15.1.0 through 4.20.3.0 and from 4.21.0.0 through 4.22.1.0.
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Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in Apache CloudStack's webhook module, exploitable via webhook delivery requests. Affects versions from 4.20.0.0 through 4.20.3.0 and from 4.21.0.0 through 4.22.1.0.
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- CVE-2026-68745High
Certificate validation failures in SAML authentication in Apache CloudStack 4.20.3.0 and 4.22.1.0 allow a malicious agent to forge a SAML response to the management server. The agent must spoof the IdP IP address or register a URL of its own choosing, after which it can allow logging on with forged signatures. Users are recommended to upgrade to versions 4.20.3.1 or 4.22.1.1 and above.
- CVE-2026-66797Medium
Improper access control in CloudStack's annotation functionality allows unauthorized comment creation and disclosure. The addAnnotation and listAnnotation APIs perform an ownership check but fail to honor its result correctly, allowing any authenticated user to write and read annotations on entities they don't own. Affects versions from 4.15.0.0 through 4.20.3.0 and from 4.21.0.0 through 4.22.1.0.
Original NVD description (English source)
SSRF via Metalink Mirror URL Resolution: An authenticated tenant can register a template pointing to an attacker-controlled metalink file containing internal targets. The Secondary Storage VM will retrieve the data and persist it as a template file, which can later be downloaded through normal APIs. RCE on KVM hypervisor via NFS, Metalink files with/without Direct Downloads: An authenticated CloudStack tenant holding the default User role can execute arbitrary shell commands as root on the KVM hypervisor host that runs other tenants' VMs. This is cross-tenant root on the underlying compute, reachable via the public CloudStack API. When a User registers a VM template with directDownload=true and a URL pointing to a .metalink file, the management server fetches the metalink XML and dispatches download to the KVM agent. Inner URLs inside the metalink XML are never re-validated against the scheme allowlist. These issues affect Apache CloudStack: from 4.14.0.0 through 4.20.3.0 and from 4.21.0.0 through 4.22.1.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 4.20.3.1 or 4.22.1.1 or later, which fixes the issue.