Quest Bot: Server Side Request Forgery in the Image to GIF Feature Lets Any Server Member Reach Internal Services

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    "cveId": "CVE-2026-61840",
    "assignerOrgId": "a0819718-46f1-4df5-94e2-005712e83aaa",
    "assignerShortName": "GitHub_M",
    "dateUpdated": "2026-10-30T18:23:22.213Z",
    "dateReserved": "2026-07-10T20:28:17.512Z",
    "datePublished": "2026-10-30T18:23:22.213Z",
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        "dateUpdated": "2026-10-30T18:23:22.213Z"
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      "title": "Quest Bot: Server Side Request Forgery in the Image to GIF Feature Lets Any Server Member Reach Internal Services",
      "descriptions": [
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          "lang": "en",
          "value": "Quest Bot is an opensource Discord Bot. Prior to 1.1.9, the `image to GIF` command uses a request helper that validates a hostname's public IP addresses but then sends the actual request by hostname, causing a `second DNS lookup`. An attacker controlling a domain can return a public address during validation and an internal address during the connection, bypassing the internal-address protection through `DNS rebinding`. The command takes its address directly from user input and its developer-only gate is disabled in normal deployments, so any member of a server with the bot can trigger the flaw without special permissions. Requests are restricted to `HTTPS on port 443`, and content is returned only when the response is a `genuine image`. The impact is therefore mostly blind internal probing with limited retrieval of image responses from loopback or internal endpoints, not arbitrary internal-data disclosure. Common cloud metadata services using plain HTTP on another port are not reachable through this path. This issue is fixed in version 1.1.9."
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "vendor": "vantern-org",
          "product": "questbot",
          "versions": [
            {
              "version": "< 1.1.9",
              "status": "affected"
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          "descriptions": [
            {
              "lang": "en",
              "description": "CWE-918: Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)",
              "cweId": "CWE-918",
              "type": "CWE"
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      "references": [
        {
          "url": "https://github.com/vantern-org/questbot/security/advisories/GHSA-hrp5-g9r6-8rq4",
          "name": "https://github.com/vantern-org/questbot/security/advisories/GHSA-hrp5-g9r6-8rq4",
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          "url": "https://github.com/vantern-org/questbot/commit/eec5f57eda8caa37cd46520c57b3c01efef2b99b",
          "name": "https://github.com/vantern-org/questbot/commit/eec5f57eda8caa37cd46520c57b3c01efef2b99b",
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