Vulnerability · Published Feb 13, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2026-24853Caido has an insufficient patch for DNS rebind leading to RCE

High 8.1

In plain English

A high-severity authentication bypass by spoofing in caido from caido. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 25% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)8.1High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 75.4% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Caido is a web security auditing toolkit. Prior to 0.55.0, Caido blocks non whitelisted domains to reach out through the 8080 port, and shows Host/IP is not allowed to connect to Caido on all endpoints. But this is bypassable by injecting a X-Forwarded-Host: 127.0.0.1:8080 header. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.55.0.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
caido caido < 0.55.0

Weakness: CWE-290 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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