# CVE-2026-46678: Pydantic AI: SSRF cloud-metadata blocklist bypass via IPv4-mapped IPv6 (Incomplete fix of CVE-2026-25580)

- Also known as: PYSEC-2026-2978, GHSA-CQP8-FCVH-X7R3, PYSEC-2026-2982
- Severity: CVSS 6.8 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.99.0
- Published: 2026-07-29 · Updated: 2026-07-30

## Affected

- pydantic pydantic-ai: from 1.56.0, fixed in 1.99.0
- pydantic pydantic-ai-slim: from 1.56.0, fixed in 1.99.0
- pydantic-ai (PyPI): from 1.56.0, fixed in 1.99.0
- pydantic-ai-slim (PyPI): from 1.56.0, fixed in 1.99.0

## Description

Pydantic AI is a Python agent framework for building Generative AI applications. In versions 1.56.0 through 1.98.0, when an application opts a URL into force_download='allow-local' (disabling the default block on private/internal IPs), the cloud-metadata blocklist could be bypassed by encoding the metadata IP in an IPv6 transition form (IPv4-mapped IPv6, 6to4, or NAT64), exposing cloud IAM short-term credentials on dual-stack or translated networks. This is an incomplete fix of GHSA-2jrp-274c-jhv3 / CVE-2026-25580, whose remediation did not hold for IPv6-encoded forms of the metadata IPs. An application is affected only if it explicitly opts a FileUrl (ImageUrl, AudioUrl, VideoUrl, DocumentUrl) into force_download='allow-local' on a URL influenced by untrusted input; it is not affected when using bundled integrations to ingest user input (Agent.to_web / clai web, VercelAIAdapter, AGUIAdapter / Agent.to_ag_ui), since they do not propagate force_download from external data, nor when downloading only from developer-controlled URLs. This issue has been fixed in version 1.99.0.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on pydantic pydantic-ai, pydantic pydantic-ai-slim, pydantic-ai or the other affected packages, upgrade to a fixed version (1.99.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai/security/advisories/GHSA-cqp8-fcvh-x7r3
- https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai/releases/tag/v1.99.0

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