CVE-2026-50194 PUBLISHED

Steeltoe vulnerable to management-port isolation bypass via spoofed Host header

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 03.06.2026 Published: 17.06.2026 Updated: 17.06.2026

Steeltoe is an open source project that provides a collection of libraries that helps users build cloud-native applications. When Steeltoe management endpoints versions 3.2.2 through 3.3.0 and 4.1.0 are configured to listen on an alternate port (Management:Endpoints:Port is configured), the middleware responsible for restricting access to the endpoints uses the Host HTTP header rather than the actual network socket port. Versions 3.4.0 and 4.2.0 patch the issue. If an immediate upgrade to a patched version is not possible, add explicit ASP.NET Core authorization (RequireAuthorization) to all sensitive actuator endpoints as a defense-in-depth measure independent of port isolation and/or configure the reverse proxy or load balancer to enforce the Host header value and prevent clients from setting an arbitrary port.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
CVSS Score: 8.2

Product Status

Vendor SteeltoeOSS
Product Steeltoe.Management.Endpoint
Versions
  • Version < 4.2.0 is affected
Vendor SteeltoeOSS
Product Steeltoe.Management.EndpointCore
Versions
  • Version >= 3.2.2, < 3.4.0 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-288: Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel CWE
  • CWE-639: Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key CWE