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# Exposure of sensitive information to an unauthorized actor (private IP address)

## Description

A private RFC 1918 was identified in the target application. Public facing websites should not be issuing 
requests to private IP Addresses. Attackers attempting to execute subsequent attacks, such as Server-Side 
Request Forgery (SSRF), may be able to use this information to identify additional internal targets.

## Remediation

Identify the resource that is incorrectly specifying an internal IP address and replace it with it's public 
facing version, or remove the reference from the target application.

## Details

| ID | Aggregated | CWE | Type | Risk |
|:---|:--------|:--------|:--------|:--------|
| 200.1 | true | 200 | Passive | Low |

## Links

- [CWE](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/200.html)
- [RFC](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1918)
