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type: concepts, reference, howto
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# Webhooks and insecure internal web services
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If you have non-GitLab web services running on your GitLab server or within its
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local network, these may be vulnerable to exploitation via Webhooks.
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With [Webhooks](../user/project/integrations/webhooks.md), you and your project
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maintainers and owners can set up URLs to be triggered when specific changes
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occur in your projects. Normally, these requests are sent to external web
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services specifically set up for this purpose, that process the request and its
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attached data in some appropriate way.
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Things get hairy, however, when a Webhook is set up with a URL that doesn't
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point to an external, but to an internal service, that may do something
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completely unintended when the webhook is triggered and the POST request is
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sent.
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Webhook requests are made by the GitLab server itself and use a single
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(optional) secret token per hook for authorization (instead of a user or
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repo-specific token). As a result, these may have broader access than
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intended to everything running on the server hosting the webhook (which
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may include the GitLab server or API itself, e.g., `http://localhost:123`).
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Depending on the called webhook, this may also result in network access
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to other servers within that webhook server's local network (e.g.,
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`http://192.168.1.12:345`), even if these services are otherwise protected
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and inaccessible from the outside world.
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If a web service does not require authentication, Webhooks can be used to
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trigger destructive commands by getting the GitLab server to make POST requests
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to endpoints like `http://localhost:123/some-resource/delete`.
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To prevent this type of exploitation from happening, starting with GitLab 10.6,
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all Webhook requests to the current GitLab instance server address and/or in a
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private network will be forbidden by default. That means that all requests made
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to 127.0.0.1, ::1 and 0.0.0.0, as well as IPv4 10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12,
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192.168.0.0/16 and IPv6 site-local (ffc0::/10) addresses won't be allowed.
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This behavior can be overridden by enabling the option *"Allow requests to the
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local network from web hooks and services"* in the *"Outbound requests"* section
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inside the Admin area under **Settings**
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(`/admin/application_settings/network`):
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NOTE: **Note:**
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*System hooks* are enabled to make requests to local network by default since they are
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set up by administrators. However, you can turn this off by disabling the
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**Allow requests to the local network from system hooks** option.
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## Whitelist for local requests
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> [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/issues/44496) in GitLab 12.2
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You can allow certain domains and IP addresses to be accessible to both *system hooks*
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and *webhooks* even when local requests are not allowed by adding them to the
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whitelist. Navigate to **Admin Area > Settings > Network** (`/admin/application_settings/network`)
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and expand **Outbound requests**:
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The whilelist entries can be separated by semicolons, commas or whitespaces
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(including newlines) and be in different formats like hostnames, IP addresses and/or
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IP ranges. IPv6 is supported. Hostnames that contain unicode characters should
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use IDNA encoding.
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The whitelist can hold a maximum of 1000 entries. Each entry can be a maximum of
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255 characters.
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Example:
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```text
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example.com;gitlab.example.com
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127.0.0.1,1:0:0:0:0:0:0:1
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127.0.0.0/8 1:0:0:0:0:0:0:0/124
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```
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NOTE: **Note:**
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Wildcards (`*.example.com`) and ports (`127.0.0.1:3000`) are not currently supported.
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