CVE-2025-0454

CVE-2025-0454 is a Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability affecting the Requests utility in significant-gravitas/autogpt versions prior to v0.4.0. The issue stems from a hostname confusion between the `urlparse` function from the `urllib.parse` library and the `requests` library, allowing specially crafted URLs to bypass SSRF protections. Assigned CWE-918, it carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.5 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N), highlighting high integrity impact from network-accessible exploitation with low complexity and no privileges required.

A malicious user can exploit this vulnerability by submitting a crafted URL, such as `http://localhost:\@google.com/../`, to the affected Requests utility. This bypasses the SSRF check, enabling the attacker to forge requests from the server to unintended destinations, potentially leading to unauthorized access to internal services or resources. Exploitation requires only the ability to provide input URLs to the application, with no user interaction or privileges needed.

The vulnerability was addressed in autogpt v0.4.0 via commit ff065cd24c2289878c0abdb9adbf91c305f0d70a, as documented on GitHub. Additional details, including the bounty report, are available on Huntr at https://huntr.com/bounties/0664fdee-bdc2-4650-8075-74d7b8d3e308. Security practitioners should ensure upgrades to v0.4.0 or later to mitigate the issue.

This flaw occurs in AutoGPT, an open-source framework for autonomous AI agents, underscoring SSRF risks in AI/ML tooling that processes external URLs. No public evidence of real-world exploitation has been reported as of the CVE publication on 2025-03-20.