Headroom compresses data before the data reaches a large language model. Prior to version 0.35.0, the Headroom WebSocket server does not validate the `Origin` header of incoming client WebSocket requests before forwarding the request to the upstream server, allowing malicious WebSocket clients to perform arbitrary LLM requests without authentication. This can be exploited by a malicious WebSocket client executed in a traditional or headless browser such as lightpanda, if the browser has access to the Headroom proxy and the OpenAI API key is stored in the `OPENAI_API_KEY` environment variable. Version 0.35.0 fixes the issue.
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| Description | Headroom compresses data before the data reaches a large language model. Prior to version 0.35.0, the Headroom WebSocket server does not validate the `Origin` header of incoming client WebSocket requests before forwarding the request to the upstream server, allowing malicious WebSocket clients to perform arbitrary LLM requests without authentication. This can be exploited by a malicious WebSocket client executed in a traditional or headless browser such as lightpanda, if the browser has access to the Headroom proxy and the OpenAI API key is stored in the `OPENAI_API_KEY` environment variable. Version 0.35.0 fixes the issue. | |
| Title | Headroom vulnerable to Cross-Site WebSocket Hijacking (CSWSH) | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-1385 CWE-287 |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
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Updated: 2026-09-11T14:33:18.586Z
Reserved: 2026-08-06T16:28:51.181Z
Link: CVE-2026-71416
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-09-11T14:17:32.390
Modified: 2026-09-11T14:17:32.390
Link: CVE-2026-71416
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