# CVE-2026-48053: Kolibri has Unauthenticated Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) in RemoteFacilityUserViewset

- Also known as: PYSEC-2026-2554, GHSA-4MJ9-PF4R-CQRC
- Severity: CVSS 5.8 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.19.4
- Published: 2026-08-17 · Updated: 2026-08-17

## Affected

- learningequality kolibri: fixed in 0.19.4
- kolibri (PyPI): fixed in 0.19.4

## Description

Kolibri is an offline-first education platform. Prior to version 0.19.4, several Kolibri API endpoints accept an unvalidated `baseurl` parameter and fetch attacker-controlled URLs from the Kolibri server, reflecting the response body back to the caller. The original report identified two endpoints on the `RemoteFacilityUser*` viewsets; remediation review found two further reflection points on the same pattern. The GET endpoint was unauthenticated. Version 0.19.4 fixes the vulnerability.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on learningequality kolibri, kolibri, upgrade to a fixed version (0.19.4) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/learningequality/kolibri/security/advisories/GHSA-4mj9-pf4r-cqrc
- https://github.com/learningequality/kolibri/releases/tag/v0.19.4
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/kolibri/PYSEC-2026-2554.yaml

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