CVE-2026-49446

Cosmos: Authentication bypass via forward-auth header smuggling on Constellation tunnel in Cosmos-Server

State
Published
Severity
6.1 Medium
Published
Sep 15, 2026
Updated
Sep 15, 2026
Reserved
May 30, 2026

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Description

Cosmos provides users the ability self-host a home server by acting as a secure gateway to your application, as well as a server manager. Prior to 0.22.19, tokenMiddleware in src/proxy/routerGen.go can return through the Constellation tunnel bypass before removing x-cosmos-user, x-cosmos-role, x-cosmos-user-role, and x-cosmos-mfa headers and before invoking AdminOnlyWithRedirect. An attacker with a valid x-cstln-auth API key for an enrolled device who reaches Cosmos through the Constellation Nebula tunnel can supply a chosen x-cosmos-user value to a route with AuthEnabled enabled when the upstream application trusts that forward-auth header. The request can bypass Cosmos JWT, password, MFA, and AdminOnly checks, allowing user impersonation and admin-tier reads or writes exposed by the proxied application. This issue is fixed in version 0.22.19.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.16.1 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-285 Improper Authorization
  • CWE-290 Authentication Bypass by Spoofing

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Cosmos-Serverazukaar
  • < 0.22.19Affected

References

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