GHSA-88fw-hqm2-52qc
hono: CORS Middleware reflects any Origin with credentials when `origin` defaults to the wildcard
At a glance
- Published
- Updated
- CVE
- CVE-2026-54290
- CVSS_V3
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
Description
### Summary With `credentials: true` and no explicit `origin` (the default wildcard), the CORS Middleware reflects the request's `Origin` and sends `Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true`. Any site can then make credentialed cross-origin requests and read the responses, exposing cookie-authenticated endpoints to arbitrary origins. ### Details The spec forbids `Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *` with credentials and browsers reject it, so this configuration used to fail closed. In affected versions the middleware reflects the request `Origin` instead, so it now succeeds for every origin, including `null`. The preflight also echoes the requested headers back, approving non-simple credentialed requests too. This issue arises when an application enables `credentials: true` and leaves `origin` unset or set to the wildcard. ### Impact Any third-party page a logged-in user visits can read the application's cookie-authenticated endpoints and perform credentialed state-changing requests. This affects applications that enable credentialed CORS without restricting `origin`.
Affected packages
| Package | Versions |
|---|---|
| npm · hono | introduced 0, fixed 4.12.25 |
References
- https://github.com/honojs/hono/security/advisories/GHSA-88fw-hqm2-52qc WEB
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-54290 ADVISORY
- https://github.com/honojs/hono PACKAGE
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| OSV.dev | CC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database |