GHSA-xw9q-2mv6-9fr8: Fedify has an incomplete SSRF mitigation after GHSA-p9cg-vqcc-grcx: validatePublicUrl allows special-use IPv4 ranges

Summary Fedify previously addressed SSRF/internal network access in GHSA-p9cg-vqcc-grcx by adding public URL validation before runtime document and media fetching. However, the current IPv4 validation logic appears incomplete. The validatePublicUrl() protection relies on isValidPublicIPv4Address() to reject non-public IPv4 destinations. The function blocks common private and local ranges such as 10.0.0.0/8, 127.0.0.0/8, 169.254.0.0/16, 172.16.0.0/12, and 192.168.0.0/16, but it still treats several special-use, reserved, multicast, benchmarking, and carrier-grade NAT IPv4 ranges as valid public destinations. Because this validation is used as an SSRF defense before outbound fetches, this appears to be an incomplete mitigation or bypass class for the previous SSRF issue. I tested this against the current repository code at unreleased version 2.3.0. I used >=0.11.2, <=2.2.3 as the suspected affected range because 0.11.2 is listed as a patched version for GHSA-p9cg-vqcc-grcx, and this report concerns the post-fix validation logic. Maintainers may adjust the exact affected range. Why this is not a duplicate of GHSA-p9cg-vqcc-grcx GHSA-p9cg-vqcc-grcx covered the original behavior where Fedify fetched ActivityPub object, activity, document, and media URLs without first ensuring that the resolved destination was public. This report is about the post-fix validation logic. The current mitigation now performs public URL/IP validation, but the IPv4 classification is incomplete and still treats several special-use ranges as public. Therefore, this is a potential incomplete fix/bypass of the previous SSRF mitigation rather than a re-report of the original issue. The affected behavior appears to exist in the patched/current code path, not only in versions listed as vulnerable in the original advisory. Affected Code Affected file: packages/vocab-runtime/src/url.ts Current IPv4 validation logic: export function isValidPublicIPv4Address(address: string): boolean { const