CVE-2026-55454

CRITICAL

Appsmith: Caddy admin API exposed without authentication

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

Appsmith is a platform to build admin panels, internal tools, and dashboards. Prior to 2.1, the bundled Caddy reverse-proxy's admin API — which has no authentication by default — is bound on 0.0.0.0:2019 inside the container. While this listener is not directly published to the host by docker-compose.yml, it is reachable from the Appsmith server process itself or a SSRF vulnerability. An authenticated low-privileged user can therefore drive the SSRF to issue POST /load (or any other admin-API call) against http://0.0.0.0:2019/, fully replacing the live Caddy configuration and taking over the reverse proxy. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.1.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 9.9
EPSS 0.0039
EPSS Percentile 31.9%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-1188 CWE-749
Status published
Products (2)
appsmith/appsmith < 2.1
appsmithorg/appsmith < 2.1
Published Jun 24, 2026
Tracked Since Jun 25, 2026