# CVE-2026-54450: ToolHive: SSRF guard misses IPv6 NAT64 ranges (64:ff9b::/96, 64:ff9b:1::/48), allowing metadata/internal access behind a NAT64 gateway

- Also known as: GO-2026-5996, GHSA-PPH6-VFJV-VPJW
- Severity: CVSS 2.9 (Low), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.29.1
- Published: 2026-09-15 · Updated: 2026-09-15

## Affected

- stacklok toolhive: fixed in 0.29.1
- github.com/stacklok/toolhive (Go): fixed in 0.29.1

## Description

ToolHive is a utility designed to simplify the deployment and management of Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. Prior to 0.29.1, networking.IsPrivateIP in pkg/networking/utilities.go omits the IPv6 NAT64 prefixes 64:ff9b::/96 and 64:ff9b:1::/48, so NAT64 addresses embedding private, loopback, or link-local IPv4 targets are classified as public and allowed. The most direct attacker-controlled path begins when an external OAuth client supplies a client_id URL that CIMDStorageDecorator.GetClient routes through FetchClientMetadataDocument in pkg/oauthproto/cimd/fetch.go; protectedDialerControl in pkg/networking/http_client.go and validateHost in pkg/skills/gitresolver/reference.go share the defective classification but use operator-controlled or user-controlled destinations. On a ToolHive host behind a NAT64/DNS64 gateway, the gateway translates an allowed address such as 64:ff9b:1::a9fe:a9fe to 169.254.169.254, permitting blind probing of internal TCP or TLS reachability. The attacker-controlled CIMD path requires HTTPS, verifies certificates, and does not reflect response bodies, so the established impact is an internal reachability oracle rather than metadata credential exfiltration; the webhook client is not affected because it does not use this IP guard. This issue is fixed in version 0.29.1.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on stacklok toolhive, github.com/stacklok/toolhive, upgrade to a fixed version (0.29.1) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/stacklok/toolhive/security/advisories/GHSA-pph6-vfjv-vpjw
- https://github.com/stacklok/toolhive/commit/26912af453d2040787983dbc9ab93a9019ec0468
- https://github.com/stacklok/toolhive/releases/tag/v0.29.1

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