Appsmith: Caddy admin API exposed without authentication
Description
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.
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Affected products
1- Range: <2.1
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References
1- github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith/security/advisories/GHSA-8jvv-gwqg-6vjcmitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
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