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SCA: security update for headroom-ai (GHSA-h46j-26q3-rggf)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 472012

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2026-71416)

Solution

Update the headroom-ai library and its related packages to version 0.35.0 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h46j-26q3-rggf

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 472012

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 10/3/2026

Updated: 10/3/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 58.22

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-71416

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/2/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/11/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-71416