CVE-2026-57210

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Description

Heimdall is a cloud native Identity Aware Proxy and Access Control Decision service. Prior to version 0.17.17, when the trusted_proxies option is configured, heimdall extracts client IP addresses from the Forwarded (for= parameter) and X-Forwarded-For headers and exposes them as Request.ClientIPAddresses to the rule pipeline. However, extracted values are not validated to be syntactically valid IP addresses. Arbitrary strings, malformed IP literals, and RFC 7239 unknown values and obfuscated identifiers are accepted without further checks. In addition, the Forwarded header parser splits on , and ; without accounting for RFC 7239 quoted strings, which can cause a single quoted value to be parsed as multiple entries, with fragments — including trailing quote characters — treated as independent addresses. This issue has been patched in version 0.17.17.

Severity

HIGH

CVSS score

7.0 (v4.0)

Vulnerability status

Deferred

Source identifier

[email protected]

Published

2026-10-23 13:17:11.847000

Last modified

2026-10-29 04:18:39.490000

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  "id": "CVE-2026-57210",
  "sourceIdentifier": "[email protected]",
  "published": "2026-10-23T13:17:11.847",
  "lastModified": "2026-10-29T04:18:39.490",
  "vulnStatus": "Deferred",
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      "value": "Heimdall is a cloud native Identity Aware Proxy and Access Control Decision service. Prior to version 0.17.17, when the trusted_proxies option is configured, heimdall extracts client IP addresses from the Forwarded (for= parameter) and X-Forwarded-For headers and exposes them as Request.ClientIPAddresses to the rule pipeline. However, extracted values are not validated to be syntactically valid IP addresses. Arbitrary strings, malformed IP literals, and RFC 7239 unknown values and obfuscated identifiers are accepted without further checks. In addition, the Forwarded header parser splits on , and ; without accounting for RFC 7239 quoted strings, which can cause a single quoted value to be parsed as multiple entries, with fragments — including trailing quote characters — treated as independent addresses. This issue has been patched in version 0.17.17."
    }
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          "Safety": "NOT_DEFINED",
          "Automatable": "NOT_DEFINED",
          "Recovery": "NOT_DEFINED",
          "valueDensity": "NOT_DEFINED",
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  "references": [
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/dadrus/heimdall/releases/tag/v0.17.17",
      "source": "[email protected]"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/dadrus/heimdall/security/advisories/GHSA-38x9-25wx-7fg2",
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