Critical severity · published Aug 21, 2026
CVE-2026-77776
Headroom Proxy Treats the Client-Supplied x-headroom-user-id Header as an Authenticated Identity
9.1
CVSS
0.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Headroom's LLM proxy derives the memory owner from the x-headroom-user-id request header. The header is read directly at several points in headroom/proxy/handlers/openai.py, including the chat completion and websocket paths, and nothing binds the value to the caller. A client can therefore name another user's identifier and read or write that user's stored LLM memory. The fix introduces a single resolve_memory_identity seam in headroom/proxy/identity.py that honors the header only for loopback or allowlisted callers and otherwise binds the identity to the proxy-token fingerprint or the operating system user. 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:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.6% · higher than 49% 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-2026-77776
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-77776
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/identity.py
github.com
https://github.com/headroomlabs-ai/headroom/pull/2207
www.vulncheck.com
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/headroom-proxy-treats-the-client-supplied-x-headroom-user-id-header-as-an-authenticated-identity
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