User impersonation via unstripped forward-auth headers
Published Sep 15, 2026 · Updated Sep 15, 2026
Authentication bypass in Beyond Cloud ltd. Cosmos Server before 0.22.19 allows remote authenticated users to impersonate users via Constellation. In tokenMiddleware, the tunnel bypass returns before stripping attacker-supplied identity and role headers and before enforcing the AdminOnly gate. Exploitation requires an enrolled-device API key, tunnel access, an authentication-enabled proxy route, and an upstream that trusts the header; exposed admin-tier reads and writes then execute under a chosen identity.
Summary
What happened
Authentication bypass in Beyond Cloud ltd. Cosmos Server before 0.22.19 allows remote authenticated users to impersonate users via Constellation. In tokenMiddleware, the tunnel bypass returns before stripping attacker-supplied identity and role headers and before enforcing the AdminOnly gate. Exploitation requires an enrolled-device API key, tunnel access, an authentication-enabled proxy route, and an upstream that trusts the header; exposed admin-tier reads and writes then execute under a chosen identity.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-49446
- Published
- Sep 15, 2026
- Updated
- Sep 15, 2026
- Vendor
- Beyond Cloud ltd.
- Product
- Cosmos Server
- Classifications
- CWE-290, CWE-285, T1078
- Attack vector
- adjacent
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Sep 15, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Sep 15, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=< 0.22.19
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Attacks
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Weakness, pattern, technique
Public exploit references
- Constellation forward-auth curl proof of conceptfunctional · demonstrated
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