Description
Headroom's LLM proxy derives the memory owner from the x-headroom-user-id request header. The header is read directly at several points in headroom/proxy/handlers/openai.py, including the chat completion and websocket paths, and nothing binds the value to the caller. A client can therefore name another user's identifier and read or write that user's stored LLM memory. The fix introduces a single resolve_memory_identity seam in headroom/proxy/identity.py that honors the header only for loopback or allowlisted callers and otherwise binds the identity to the proxy-token fingerprint or the operating system user. The pip console script binds 127.0.0.1 by default, but the reference docker-compose.yml ships --host 0.0.0.0 with published ports and no required HEADROOM_PROXY_TOKEN, which the server itself warns about at startup, so a deployment following the shipped compose exposes the affected data-plane routes to the network without authentication.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Headroom Labs | Headroom | < 0.36.1 | 0.36.1 |
References
- Pull Request #2207 addressing the assessment findings issue-tracking patch
- Header handling in the OpenAI proxy handler at v0.29.0 technical-description
- resolve_memory_identity seam introduced by the fix technical-description
- https://github.com/headroomlabs-ai/headroom product
- VulnCheck Advisory: Headroom Proxy Treats the Client-Supplied x-headroom-user-id Header as an Authenticated Identity third-party-advisory