# CVE-2026-94621: AliasVault: Server-Side Request Forgery via DNS rebinding in Favicon Extraction

- Also known as: GHSA-7HM6-FJ4M-PF6F
- Severity: CVSS 6.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/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: 0.30.3
- Published: 2026-10-15 · Updated: 2026-10-16

## Affected

- aliasvault: fixed in 0.30.3
- aliasvault ghcr.io/aliasvault/aliasvault: fixed in 0.30.3
- aliasvault ghcr.io/aliasvault/api: fixed in 0.30.3
- aliasvault ghcr.io/lanedirt/aliasvault-api: fixed in 0.30.3

## Description

AliasVault is a privacy-first password manager with built-in email aliasing. Prior to 0.30.3, the AliasVault server API favicon extractor validates a user-supplied hostname with a first DNS lookup but allows the HTTP client to perform a second DNS lookup when connecting. An authenticated low-privileged user operating an attacker-controlled authoritative DNS server can return a public address during validation and a private address during connection, causing a publicly reachable self-hosted server to issue HTTP or HTTPS requests to internal hosts. A valid image response is returned in Base64 form, while other responses can expose limited timing and error information for internal-network reconnaissance. Exploitation requires a publicly reachable self-hosted instance with public registration enabled, an authenticated AliasVault account, an attacker-controlled authoritative DNS server, and a resolver that permits rebinding; default checks limit requests to ports 80 and 443. The browser extensions, web application, and mobile applications are not affected. This issue is fixed in version 0.30.3.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on aliasvault, aliasvault ghcr.io/aliasvault/aliasvault, aliasvault ghcr.io/aliasvault/api or the other affected packages, upgrade to a fixed version (0.30.3) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/aliasvault/aliasvault/security/advisories/GHSA-7hm6-fj4m-pf6f
- https://github.com/aliasvault/aliasvault/pull/2311
- https://github.com/aliasvault/aliasvault/commit/7eb4fee71f4582cfc80b8daea421b99d6aa9f814
- https://github.com/aliasvault/aliasvault/commit/90ea7d6bb4c74ca169ee1dde3ca38b08bd0966ed
- https://github.com/aliasvault/aliasvault/releases/tag/0.30.3

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