# Default CORS config allows any origin with credentials

Advisory record · `GHSA-52cf-226f-rhr6`

- **Identifiers:** `GHSA-52cf-226f-rhr6` · `CVE-2021-39185`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 9.1 Critical
- **Critical:** Yes: CVSS 9+
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-346](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/346.html)
- **Tags:** [CWE-346](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/cwe-346.md)
- **Published:** 2 Sept 2021
- **Updated:** 8 Jul 2026
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 2 Sept 2021, 16:52 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

## Critical

Critical, because:

- CVSS score 9.1: 9.0 or more.

How we decide what’s critical: <https://agentprime.io/advisories/critical.md>

## Affected packages

- `org.http4s:http4s-server_2.13.0-M5` (Maven): affected `all versions`; no fixed version yet
- `org.http4s:http4s-server_3` (Maven): affected `>=0.22.0, <0.22.3 || >=0.23.0, <0.23.2`; fixed in `0.22.3`, `0.23.2`
- `org.http4s:http4s-server_2.10` (Maven): affected `all versions`; no fixed version yet
- `org.http4s:http4s-server_2.11` (Maven): affected `all versions`; no fixed version yet
- `org.http4s:http4s-server_2.12` (Maven): affected `<0.21.27 || >=0.22.0, <0.22.3 || >=0.23.0, <0.23.2`; fixed in `0.21.27`, `0.22.3`, `0.23.2`
- `org.http4s:http4s-server_2.13` (Maven): affected `<0.21.27 || >=0.22.0, <0.22.3 || >=0.23.0, <0.23.2`; fixed in `0.21.27`, `0.22.3`, `0.23.2`

## Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

> The http4s-server package (Maven, Scala 2.12, 2.13 and 3 builds) is affected in versions before 0.21.27, from 0.22.0 before 0.22.3, and from 0.23.0 before 0.23.2, because its default CORS configuration reflects any origin while allowing credentials. An attacker who gets a user to visit a malicious page can read sensitive responses from the vulnerable site using that user's credentials. Upgrade to 0.21.27, 0.22.3, 0.23.2, or a later release; the deprecated CORS and CORSConfig should be replaced with the new CORSPolicy.

Written 2 Nov 2026.

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our analysis of this Advisory yet. Once a person has reviewed it, this page will say what’s vulnerable, what has to be true for your app to be affected, and how to check.

## Severity and exploitation

- 9.1 Critical, CVSS 3.1: `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N`, from CNA (GitHub_M)

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.0059, the 48th percentile, on 11 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

- 31 Oct 2026, 14:20 UTC: First seen by agentprime
- 31 Oct 2026, 14:20 UTC: [Confirmed by OSV](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-52cf-226f-rhr6)

## Sources

- [GitHub Advisory Database: GHSA-52cf-226f-rhr6](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-52cf-226f-rhr6)
- [OSV: GHSA-52cf-226f-rhr6](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-52cf-226f-rhr6)
- <https://github.com/http4s/http4s/security/advisories/GHSA-52cf-226f-rhr6>
- <https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-39185>
- <https://github.com/http4s/http4s>
- <https://github.com/http4s/http4s/releases/tag/v0.23.2>

Facts on this page come from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0), OSV and the other sources listed, as published. We don’t reproduce full advisory descriptions, which can contain exploit code.

## Check whether this affects you

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- Whether it touches your code, with file and line: the Claude Code plugin, <https://agentprime.io/plugin.md>
- As JSON: <https://api.agentprime.io/v1/advisories/GHSA-52cf-226f-rhr6>, or `POST https://api.agentprime.io/v1/match` with your packages (<https://agentprime.io/api.md>)

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