CVE-2026-33246CWE-287CWE-290

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

Medium · published March 25, 2026

CVSS v3.1
6.4
EPSS
0%
Percentile
15.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.4 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00248 · 15.2th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-287 · Improper Authentication; CWE-290 · Authentication Bypass by Spoofing
Published
2026-03-25T19:50Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 25 MAR 19:50Z
    NATS: Leafnode connections allow spoofing of Nats-Request-Info identity headers
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