CVE-2026-71416
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 8.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - EPSS
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 6% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)
- CWEs
- CWE-287, CWE-1385
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-h46j-26q3-rggf | PyPI | headroom-ai | <0.35.0 | 0.35.0 |
| PYSEC-2026-4220 | PyPI | headroom-ai | <0.35.0 | 0.35.0 |