CVE-2026-33246

Publication date 27 March 2026

Last updated 27 March 2026


Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.4 · Medium

Score breakdown

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
nats-server 25.10 questing
Needs evaluation
24.04 LTS noble
Needs evaluation
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.4 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Changed
Confidentiality Low
Integrity impact Low
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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