# CVE-2026-45568: zrok Python ProxyShare can be used as an SSRF proxy through absolute URL paths

- Also known as: GHSA-JH67-HWQW-M5R7, PYSEC-2026-577
- Severity: CVSS 9.9 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.0.3
- Published: 2026-07-16 · Updated: 2026-07-17

## Affected

- openziti zrok: from 0.4.47, fixed in 2.0.3
- zrok (PyPI): from 0.4.47, through 1.1.11

## Description

zrok is software for sharing web services, files, and network resources. Prior to 2.0.3, zrok's Python SDK ProxyShare Flask proxy route accepts an absolute URL in the request path and passes it to urllib.parse.urljoin, allowing the requested path to replace the configured target host and causing requests.request to return a server-side response from an attacker-chosen URL. This issue is fixed in version 2.0.3.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on openziti zrok, zrok, upgrade to a fixed version (2.0.3) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/openziti/zrok/security/advisories/GHSA-jh67-hwqw-m5r7
- https://github.com/openziti/zrok/commit/7c1dc3ecd1c89d8cd2e845a72c3878bd2d31b4fe
- https://github.com/openziti/zrok/releases/tag/v2.0.3

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