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Medium · 6.4 CVE-2026-33246 BIT-nats-2026-33246EUVD-2026-15973GHSA-55h8-8g96-x4hjGO-2026-4830

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

Published Mar 25, 2026 · Updated Mar 28, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
nats-io nats-server < 2.11.15, >= 2.12.0-RC.1, < 2.12.6 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 nats-server 2.12.6-1 —
Debian 13 nats-server No fix yet —
Debian 12 nats-server No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 nats-server No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 nats-server No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS nats-server No fix yet —
Show 1 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 26.04 LTS nats-server No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260326T203309-150000.1.155.2 SUSE-SU-2026:1135-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine v3.24 nats-server 2.12.6-r0 —
Alpine v3.23 nats-server 2.12.6-r0 —

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling k3s +1 1.35.2.1-r4 —
Wolfi rolling k3s-1.32 +1 1.32.13.1-r7 —
Wolfi rolling kine 0.14.15-r1 —
Wolfi rolling nats 0.3.2-r0 —
Wolfi rolling nats-top 0.6.3-r18 —
Wolfi rolling telegraf-1.38 1.38.1-r1 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/nats-io/nats-server all versions — GHSA-55h8-8g96-x4hj
Go github.com/nats-io/nats-server/v2 < 2.11.15 2.11.15 GHSA-55h8-8g96-x4hj
Go github.com/nats-io/nats-server/v2 >= 2.12.0-RC.1, < 2.12.6 2.12.6 GHSA-55h8-8g96-x4hj
Go github.com/nats-io/nats-server/v2 < 2.11.15 · >= 2.12.0-RC.1, < 2.12.6 2.11.15, 2.12.6 GO-2026-4830

Advisories 3

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