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TI-2026-54168 Aliases CVE-2026-77776GHSA-5vg3-c628-vf56

Headroom Proxy Treats the Client-Supplied x-headroom-user-id Header as an Authenticated Identity

Priority MEDIUM 49CWE-639Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Attack requirements
None
Impact type
Security bypass
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · High · None
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-639.

Summary

Headroom's LLM proxy derives the memory owner from the x-headroom-user-id request header. The header is read directly at several points in headroom/proxy/handlers/openai.py, including the chat completion and websocket paths, and nothing binds the value to the caller. A client can therefore name another user's identifier and read or write that user's stored LLM memory. The fix introduces a single resolve_memory_identity seam in headroom/proxy/identity.py that honors the header only for loopback or allowlisted callers and otherwise binds the identity to the proxy-token fingerprint or the operating system user. The pip console script binds 127.0.0.1 by default, but the reference docker-compose.yml ships --host 0.0.0.0 with published ports and no required HEADROOM_PROXY_TOKEN, which the server itself warns about at startup, so a deployment following the shipped compose exposes the affected data-plane routes to the network without authentication.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00613 49th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed Headroom (Headroom Labs): 0.36.1

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
Yes
Technical impact
Total

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
Headroom LabsHeadroombefore 0.36.10.36.1Patch availableCNA
  • Headroom VendorHeadroom Labs Affected before 0.36.1 Fixed in 0.36.1 Patch available CNA

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA Headroom (Headroom Labs) Fixed in 0.36.1

Fixed in the same release

Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.

  • Release ·

    Headroom 0.36.1

    2 records Highest priority Priority MEDIUM 2 MEDIUM

    Other records, highest priority first

    • TI-2026-54167 Headroom Proxy Sends Upstream Requests to a Client-Supplied Base URL Without Address ValidationPriority MEDIUM 40

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-77776
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-5vg3-c628-vf56

References

  • TI-2026-54167 Headroom Proxy Sends Upstream Requests to a Client-Supplied Base URL Without Address Validation CVSS 4.0HIGH 7.7

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