8.7
HIGH CVSS 4.0
CVE-2026-90882
Reflected arbitrary origins with credentials, allowing cross-origin reads of authenticated user data
Description

The open-vsx.org deployment returned Access-Control-Allow-Origin reflecting the requesting origin together with Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true on the authenticated /user/ endpoints. A page on any origin could therefore issue credentialed requests to the service in a logged-in user's browser and read the responses. This exposed /user (login name, avatar, homepage, tokens URL), /user/tokens, /user/namespaces, /user/extensions, /user/search/{name} and /user/namespace/{name}/members, and — because /user/csrf was readable the same way — allowed the CSRF protection on write endpoints to be defeated. Chaining the two, an attacker page could call /user/token/create and exfiltrate a personal access token carrying publish and delete rights over the victim's namespaces. The headers were emitted by the CDN/edge layer, not by the application: the Open VSX software sets allowCredentials(true) in exactly one place, against a single exact origin derived from ovsx.webui.url, and defines no CORS mapping on /user/ beyond it. No configuration of the software produces origin reflection with credentials.

INFO

Published Date :

Sept. 22, 2026, 10:17 a.m.

Last Modified :

Sept. 22, 2026, 10:17 a.m.

Remotely Exploit :

Yes !
Affected Products

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CVSS Scores
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Score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Source
CVSS 4.0 HIGH e51fbebd-6053-4e49-959f-1b94eeb69a2c
CVSS 4.0 HIGH [email protected]
Solution
Configure CDN/edge layer to restrict CORS headers for authenticated endpoints.
  • Disable Access-Control-Allow-Credentials for reflected origins.
  • Restrict Access-Control-Allow-Origin to trusted origins.
  • Remove credentials from cross-origin requests.
  • Review CDN/edge layer CORS configurations.
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URL Resource
https://gitlab.eclipse.org/security/cve-assignment/-/work_items/289
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  • New CVE Received by [email protected]

    Sep. 22, 2026

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description The open-vsx.org deployment returned Access-Control-Allow-Origin reflecting the requesting origin together with Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true on the authenticated /user/ endpoints. A page on any origin could therefore issue credentialed requests to the service in a logged-in user's browser and read the responses. This exposed /user (login name, avatar, homepage, tokens URL), /user/tokens, /user/namespaces, /user/extensions, /user/search/{name} and /user/namespace/{name}/members, and — because /user/csrf was readable the same way — allowed the CSRF protection on write endpoints to be defeated. Chaining the two, an attacker page could call /user/token/create and exfiltrate a personal access token carrying publish and delete rights over the victim's namespaces. The headers were emitted by the CDN/edge layer, not by the application: the Open VSX software sets allowCredentials(true) in exactly one place, against a single exact origin derived from ovsx.webui.url, and defines no CORS mapping on /user/ beyond it. No configuration of the software produces origin reflection with credentials.
    Added CVSS V4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
    Added CWE CWE-942
    Added Affected New affected value received. <a href="https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/blob/main/cves/2026/90xxx/CVE-2026-90882.json">CVE-2026-90882</a>
    Added Reference https://gitlab.eclipse.org/security/cve-assignment/-/work_items/289
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