CVE-2026-33246

MEDIUM

NATS: Leafnode connections allow spoofing of Nats-Request-Info identity headers

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

NATS-Server is a High-Performance server for NATS.io, a cloud and edge native messaging system. The nats-server offers a `Nats-Request-Info:` message header, providing information about a request. This is supposed to provide enough information to allow for account/user identification, such that NATS clients could make their own decisions on how to trust a message, provided that they trust the nats-server as a broker. A leafnode connecting to a nats-server is not fully trusted unless the system account is bridged too. Thus identity claims should not have propagated unchecked. Prior to versions 2.11.15 and 2.12.6, NATS clients relying upon the Nats-Request-Info: header could be spoofed. This does not directly affect the nats-server itself, but the CVSS Confidentiality and Integrity scores are based upon what a hypothetical client might choose to do with this NATS header. Versions 2.11.15 and 2.12.6 contain a fix. No known workarounds are available.

Scores

CVSS v3 6.4
EPSS 0.0003
EPSS Percentile 8.4%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-287 CWE-290
Status published
Products (5)
linuxfoundation/nats-server < 2.11.15
nats-io/nats-server 0Go
nats-io/nats-server 0 - 2.11.15Go
nats-io/nats-server < 2.11.15
nats-io/nats-server >= 2.12.0-RC.1, < 2.12.6
Published Mar 25, 2026
Tracked Since Mar 26, 2026