Hugo is a static site generator. From v0.162.0 through v0.163.0, the default security.http.urls policy denies requests to loopback, internal, and cloud-metadata IPv4 literals, but the deny rule only matched dotted-decimal notation, so alternate IPv4 encodings of the same addresses, including integer, hex, or octal, passed the policy. When a template passes an untrusted or data-derived URL to resources.GetRemote and the host platform uses the cgo system resolver, these encodings resolve to the blocked address, allowing build-time server-side requests to loopback and internal services, including the cloud-metadata endpoint in hosted or CI builds; the same check is reused on redirects, so the gap also applies to each redirect hop. This issue is fixed in v0.163.1.
https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/security/advisories/GHSA-r46f-3rpw-hxrv
https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/tag/v0.163.1
https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/pull/15020
https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/a00b5c72ac57afe26df6688ece3ca544a56df372
Published: 2026-07-06
Updated: 2026-07-06
Base Score: 6.4
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Severity: Medium
Base Score: 9.3
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N
Severity: Critical
Base Score: 4.6
Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N
Severity: Medium