GHSA-55h8-8g96-x4hj
NATS: Leafnode connections allow spoofing of Nats-Request-Info identity headers
At a glance
- Published
- Updated
- CVE
- CVE-2026-33246
- Aliases
- BIT-nats-2026-33246, GO-2026-4830
- CVSS_V3
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Description
### Background NATS.io is a high performance open source pub-sub distributed communication technology, built for the cloud, on-premise, IoT, and edge computing. The nats-server allows hub/spoke topologies using "leafnode" connections by other nats-servers. NATS messages can have headers. ### Problem Description The nats-server offers a `Nats-Request-Info:` message header, providing information about a request. This is supposed to provide enough information to allow for account/user identification, such that NATS clients could make their own decisions on how to trust a message, provided that they trust the nats-server as a broker. A leafnode connecting to a nats-server is not fully trusted unless the system account is bridged too. Thus identity claims should not have propagated unchecked. Thus NATS clients relying upon the Nats-Request-Info: header could be spoofed. Does not directly affect the nats-server itself, but the CVSS Confidentiality and Integrity scores are based upon what a hypothetical client might choose to do with this NATS header. ### Affected Versions Any version before v2.12.6 or v2.11.15 ### Workarounds None.
Affected packages
| Package | Versions |
|---|---|
| Go · github.com/nats-io/nats-server/v2 | introduced 0, fixed 2.11.15 |
| Go · github.com/nats-io/nats-server/v2 | introduced 2.12.0-RC.1, fixed 2.12.6 |
| Go · github.com/nats-io/nats-server | introduced 0 |
References
- https://github.com/nats-io/nats-server/security/advisories/GHSA-55h8-8g96-x4hj WEB
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-33246 ADVISORY
- https://advisories.nats.io/CVE/secnote-2026-08.txt WEB
- https://github.com/nats-io/nats-server PACKAGE
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| OSV.dev | CC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database |