Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel Affecting steeltoe.management.endpointcore package, versions [3.2.2,3.4.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.24% (15th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DOTNET-STEELTOEMANAGEMENTENDPOINTCORE-17374817
  • published18 Jun 2026
  • disclosed18 Jun 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 18 Jun 2026

NewCVE-2026-50194  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-288  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Steeltoe.Management.EndpointCore to version 3.4.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel in the middleware responsible for access restriction, which relies on the Host HTTP header rather than the actual network socket port. An attacker can gain unauthorized access to management endpoints by sending requests with a spoofed Host header.

Workaround

This vulnerability can be mitigated by adding explicit ASP.NET Core authorization (RequireAuthorization) to all sensitive actuator endpoints and/or configuring the reverse proxy or load balancer to enforce the Host header value and prevent clients from setting an arbitrary port.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1