GHSA-gj9m-f8ph-pmhr: GPUStack: Authentication bypass via trusted loopback source (reverse-proxy TCP peer or X-GPUStack-Real-IP header) grants unauthenticated admin

Published Nov 4, 2026
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GPUStack is an open-source GPU cluster manager for AI model serving and GPU instance provisioning. Prior to 2.2.0, getcurrentuser in gpustack/api/auth.py treated a loopback request source as the built-in administrator when forceauthlocalhost was false, which was the default. A remote request could appear to originate from 127.0.0.1 because clientipgetter accepted a same-host reverse proxy peer or a client-supplied X-GPUStack-Real-IP loopback value. The bypass allowed unauthenticated administrative access, including user and model changes, persistent administrator API-key creation, disclosure of worker and cloud-provider secrets, and code execution through POST /v2/inference-backends/from-yaml. Exploitation was observed in the wild against a 2.1.1 deployment. This issue is fixed in version 2.2.0.

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

  1. Upgrade

    Upgrade GPUStack to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 2.2.0

Event History

Nov 4, 2026
CVE Published
via OSV·09:16 PM
Data Sourced
via OSV·09:16 PM
DescriptionSeverityWeakness

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