Authentication bypass in GPUStack grants unauthenticated admin access
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Security bypass
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-287.
Summary
GPUStack before 2.2.0 treats loopback requests as the built-in administrator by default, so no login is needed. A reverse proxy on the same host or a client-supplied X-GPUStack-Real-IP header can make a remote request appear to come from 127.0.0.1 (CWE-290). Exploitation was observed in the wild against a 2.1.1 deployment, and the bypass allows administrative access to users, models and secrets.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-11-04
Description from the CNA
GPUStack is an open-source GPU cluster manager for AI model serving and GPU instance provisioning. Prior to 2.2.0, get_current_user in gpustack/api/auth.py treated a loopback request source as the built-in administrator when force_auth_localhost was false, which was the default. A remote request could appear to originate from 127.0.0.1 because client_ip_getter accepted a same-host reverse proxy peer or a client-supplied X-GPUStack-Real-IP loopback value. The bypass allowed unauthenticated administrative access, including user and model changes, persistent administrator API-key creation, disclosure of worker and cloud-provider secrets, and code execution through POST /v2/inference-backends/from-yaml. Exploitation was observed in the wild against a 2.1.1 deployment. This issue is fixed in version 2.2.0.
Why it matters now
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
Remediation
Upgrade GPUStack to version 2.2.0, which fixes this issue.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-11-04
- Fix · CNA gpustack (gpustack) Fixed in 2.2.0
Timeline
- 2026-11-04 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-102895
- 2026-11-05 CISA SSVC decision points changed
- 2026-11-06 CISA SSVC decision points changed
References
More gpustack vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-42223 GPUStack Unauthenticated Information Disclosure via Worker Endpoints CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.8
- TI-2026-85212 Unverified SAML responses in GPUStack allow authentication bypass CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1
- TI-2026-85224 Missing authorization in GPUStack cluster proxy exposes Kubernetes clusters CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
Sources
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