{"id":"CVE-2026-82438","state":"PUBLISHED","title":"Apache Storm Webapp: Authenticated API Responses Exposed to Arbitrary Web Origins","description":"Description\n\nThree separate mechanisms allowed a web page on an unrelated origin to read responses that Storm's HTTP\ncomponents served to an authenticated user.\n\nThe Logviewer reflected the request's `Origin` header back in `Access-Control-Allow-Origin` while also\nsending `Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true`. The published security model documents a permissive\n`Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *` posture as accepted, which is safe precisely because browsers refuse to\nhonour `*` together with credentials; reflecting the concrete origin removes that protection.\n\nThe shared CORS filter used by the UI, the Logviewer and DRPC was configured with a response header name\nwhere an initialisation parameter name was expected. The container ignored the setting and applied its own\ndefaults, which allow credentials.\n\nFinally, the UI and Logviewer wrapped API responses in a caller-supplied JSONP callback for every GET\nrequest. A script element on any origin can load such a response, which bypasses the same-origin policy\nentirely rather than negotiating it, and there was no way to turn the behaviour off.\n\nIn each case the effect is that a page visited by an authenticated operator can read cluster, topology and\nlog data on their behalf.\n\nMitigation\n\nUpgrade to 3.1.0, where the Logviewer no longer reflects the request origin in a credentialed response, the\nCORS filter is configured explicitly, and JSONP wrapping is governed by `ui.enable.jsonp`, which defaults to\nfalse.\n\nNote that disabling JSONP is a behaviour change for tooling that passes a `callback` query parameter; such\ntooling should be moved to ordinary JSON requests.\n\nUsers who cannot upgrade immediately should place the UI, Logviewer and DRPC HTTP endpoints behind a reverse\nproxy that strips `Access-Control-Allow-Origin` and `Access-Control-Allow-Credentials` from responses and\nrejects requests carrying a `callback` parameter.\n\nCredit\n\nThe ASF -- found using Claude agents to study the security of open-source projects, validated and reported by Apache Storm.","publishedAt":"2026-09-14T14:02:07.213Z","updatedAt":"2026-09-14T19:52:48.724Z","severity":{"score":8.1,"label":"High","version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N","source":"CISA-ADP"},"assigner":"apache","products":["Apache Software Foundation Apache Storm Webapp"],"affected":[{"vendor":"Apache Software Foundation","product":"Apache Storm Webapp","packageName":"org.apache.storm:storm-webapp","defaultStatus":"unaffected","versions":[{"version":"3.0.0","status":"affected","lessThan":"3.1.0","versionType":"semver"}],"collectionURL":"https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2"}],"references":["https://lists.apache.org/thread/2o7tl3hcdd865njxsn4d9cxp1frkctz3","http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/09/13/17"],"weaknesses":["CWE-346","CWE-942"],"ingestedAt":"2026-10-29T20:13:15.269Z","source":{"repository":"CVEProject/cvelistV5","path":"cves/2026/82xxx/CVE-2026-82438.json","commit":"556c9d3a8cd17e218bb8e452ba7cd619a384ff47"},"raw":{"dataType":"CVE_RECORD","dataVersion":"5.2","cveMetadata":{"cveId":"CVE-2026-82438","state":"PUBLISHED","datePublished":"2026-09-14T14:02:07.213Z","dateUpdated":"2026-09-14T19:52:48.724Z","assignerShortName":"apache","assignerOrgId":"f0158376-9dc2-43b6-827c-5f631a4d8d09","dateReserved":"2026-08-29T10:37:41.671Z"},"containers":{"cna":{"title":"Apache Storm Webapp: Authenticated API Responses Exposed to Arbitrary Web Origins","descriptions":[{"lang":"en","value":"Description\n\nThree separate mechanisms allowed a web page on an unrelated origin to read responses that Storm's HTTP\ncomponents served to an authenticated user.\n\nThe Logviewer reflected the request's `Origin` header back in `Access-Control-Allow-Origin` while also\nsending `Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true`. 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