diff --git a/src/plugins/data_source/server/saved_objects/data_source_saved_objects_client_wrapper.ts b/src/plugins/data_source/server/saved_objects/data_source_saved_objects_client_wrapper.ts
index 6b79248d1a94..a929efc1a68f 100644
--- a/src/plugins/data_source/server/saved_objects/data_source_saved_objects_client_wrapper.ts
+++ b/src/plugins/data_source/server/saved_objects/data_source_saved_objects_client_wrapper.ts
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import {
   UsernamePasswordTypedContent,
 } from '../../common/data_sources';
 import { EncryptionContext, CryptographyServiceSetup } from '../cryptography_service';
+import { isValidURL } from '../util';
 
 /**
  * Describes the Credential Saved Objects Client Wrapper class,
@@ -138,15 +139,6 @@ export class DataSourceSavedObjectsClientWrapper {
     };
   };
 
-  private isValidUrl(endpoint: string) {
-    try {
-      const url = new URL(endpoint);
-      return Boolean(url) && (url.protocol === 'http:' || url.protocol === 'https:');
-    } catch (e) {
-      return false;
-    }
-  }
-
   private async validateAndEncryptAttributes<T = unknown>(attributes: T) {
     this.validateAttributes(attributes);
 
@@ -254,8 +246,8 @@ export class DataSourceSavedObjectsClientWrapper {
       );
     }
 
-    if (!this.isValidUrl(endpoint)) {
-      throw SavedObjectsErrorHelpers.createBadRequestError('"endpoint" attribute is not valid');
+    if (!isValidURL(endpoint)) {
+      throw SavedObjectsErrorHelpers.createBadRequestError('"endpoint" attribute is not valid or allowed');
     }
 
     if (!auth) {
diff --git a/src/plugins/data_source/server/util/endpoint_validator.ts b/src/plugins/data_source/server/util/endpoint_validator.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..4227e505efe1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/plugins/data_source/server/util/endpoint_validator.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright OpenSearch Contributors
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+ */
+
+import dns from 'dns-sync';
+import IPCIDR from 'ip-cidr';
+
+const BLOCK_LIST = [
+  '127.0.0.0/8',
+  '::1/128',
+  '169.254.0.0/16',
+  'fe80::/10',
+  '10.0.0.0/8',
+  '172.16.0.0/12',
+  '192.168.0.0/16',
+  'fc00::/7',
+  '0.0.0.0/8',
+  '100.64.0.0/10',
+  '192.0.0.0/24',
+  '192.0.2.0/24',
+  '198.18.0.0/15',
+  '192.88.99.0/24',
+  '198.51.100.0/24',
+  '203.0.113.0/24',
+  '224.0.0.0/4',
+  '240.0.0.0/4',
+  '255.255.255.255/32',
+  '::/128',
+  '2001:db8::/32',
+  'ff00::/8',
+];
+
+export function isValidURL(endpoint: string) {
+  // Check the format of URL, URL has be in the format as
+  // scheme://server/path/resource otherwise an TypeError
+  // would be thrown.
+  let url;
+  try {
+    url = new URL(endpoint);
+  } catch (err) {
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  if (!(Boolean(url) && (url.protocol === 'http:' || url.protocol === 'https:'))) {
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  const ip = getIpAddress(url);
+  if (!ip) {
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  // IP CIDR check if a specific IP address fall in the
+  // range of an IP address block
+  for (const bl of BLOCK_LIST) {
+    const cidr = new IPCIDR(bl);
+    if (cidr.contains(ip)) {
+      return false;
+    }
+  }
+  return true;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Resolve hostname to IP address
+ * @param {object} urlObject
+ * @returns {string} configuredIP
+ * or null if it cannot be resolve
+ * According to RFC, all IPv6 IP address needs to be in []
+ * such as [::1].
+ * So if we detect a IPv6 address, we remove brackets.
+ */
+function getIpAddress(urlObject: URL) {
+  const hostname = urlObject.hostname;
+  const configuredIP = dns.resolve(hostname);
+  if (configuredIP) {
+    return configuredIP;
+  }
+  if (hostname.startsWith('[') && hostname.endsWith(']')) {
+    return hostname.substr(1).slice(0, -1);
+  }
+  return null;
+}
diff --git a/src/plugins/data_source/server/util/index.ts b/src/plugins/data_source/server/util/index.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e76c825a0837
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/plugins/data_source/server/util/index.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright OpenSearch Contributors
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+ */
+
+export { isValidURL } from './endpoint_validator';