A server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in monetr's Lunch Flow integration allowed any authenticated user on a self-hosted instance to cause the monetr server to issue HTTP GET requests to arbitrary URLs supplied by the caller, with the response body from non-200 upstream responses reflected back in the API error message.
The URL validator on POST /api/lunch_flow/link only checked the URL scheme and rejected query parameters; it did not
filter loopback, RFC1918, link-local, or cloud-provider metadata addresses. The outbound HTTP client read the response
body via an unbounded io.ReadAll, and the controller intentionally surfaced the resulting error (which contained the
upstream body) as the JSON error field of the API response.
Who is affected: self-hosted monetr deployments running the default configuration. Out of the box,
LunchFlow.Enabled=true, AllowSignUp=true, and billing is not enforced, so any user who can register on the instance
can reach the vulnerable endpoint. Deployments running in a cloud environment where instance metadata is reachable from
the pod (e.g. AWS EC2 without IMDSv2 enforced) expand the impact to include potential exposure of instance metadata
through the reflected error body.
Who is NOT affected: the hosted my.monetr.app service, which runs with LunchFlow.Enabled=false. Self-hosted
operators who had already disabled public sign-up (MONETR_ALLOW_SIGN_UP=false) substantially reduce their exposure
since only operator-trusted users can reach the endpoint.
A secondary denial-of-service vector also existed: because the outbound response body was read with no size cap, an attacker-influenced upstream could return a multi-GB body that monetr would fully buffer into memory.
Fixed in monetr v1.12.5. Users should upgrade to this release or later.
The fix introduces a new config field LunchFlow.AllowedApiUrls (a list of permitted Lunch Flow API URLs) with a
default of...
1.12.5Exploitability
AV:NAC:LAT:NPR:LUI:NVulnerable System
VC:HVI:NVA:LSubsequent System
SC:HSI:NSA:N8.3/CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:L/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N