High severity · published Aug 21, 2026
CVE-2026-77775
Headroom Proxy Sends Upstream Requests to a Client-Supplied Base URL Without Address Validation
8.6
CVSS
0.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Headroom's LLM proxy lets a client choose the upstream destination with the x-headroom-base-url request header. _resolve_openai_upstream_base in headroom/proxy/handlers/openai.py accepts the header value, requires only that it parse with an http or https scheme and a hostname, and returns it for use as the upstream base; _select_passthrough_base_url in headroom/providers/proxy_routes.py reads the same header for the passthrough routes. No check rejects loopback, link-local, or RFC 1918 destinations, and because the component is a proxy the upstream response is returned to the caller, so the request reaches internal services and cloud metadata addresses and their responses are disclosed. The Authorization header accompanying the request is forwarded unchanged to the caller-designated host. 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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.6% · higher than 48% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
HE
Headroom · Headroom Labs
before 0.36.1 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-77775
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-77775
github.com
https://github.com/headroomlabs-ai/headroom
github.com
https://github.com/headroomlabs-ai/headroom/blob/v0.29.0/headroom/proxy/handlers/openai.py
github.com
https://github.com/headroomlabs-ai/headroom/blob/v0.36.1/headroom/proxy/upstream_guard.py
github.com
https://github.com/headroomlabs-ai/headroom/pull/2207
www.vulncheck.com
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/headroom-proxy-sends-upstream-requests-to-a-client-supplied-base-url-without-address-validation
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