CVE-2026-90882
HighCVSS 8.7Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk36th percentile - higher than 36% of all known CVEs
Summary
The open-vsx.org deployment returned Access-Control-Allow-Origin reflecting the requesting origin together with Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true on the authenticated /user/ endpoints. A page on any origin could therefore issue credentialed requests to the service in a logged-in user's browser and read the responses, exposing user data and allowing CSRF protection bypass and token theft.
Risk Assessment
An attacker could hijack a user's account, access their namespaces, and perform unauthorized operations including publishing and deleting.
Recommendation
Contact the open-vsx.org administrator to fix the CORS configuration at the CDN/edge layer; there is no fix in the Open VSX software itself.
Other vulnerabilities in Open VSX
Original NVD description (English source)
The open-vsx.org deployment returned Access-Control-Allow-Origin reflecting the requesting origin together with Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true on the authenticated /user/ endpoints. A page on any origin could therefore issue credentialed requests to the service in a logged-in user's browser and read the responses. This exposed /user (login name, avatar, homepage, tokens URL), /user/tokens, /user/namespaces, /user/extensions, /user/search/{name} and /user/namespace/{name}/members, and — because /user/csrf was readable the same way — allowed the CSRF protection on write endpoints to be defeated. Chaining the two, an attacker page could call /user/token/create and exfiltrate a personal access token carrying publish and delete rights over the victim's namespaces. The headers were emitted by the CDN/edge layer, not by the application: the Open VSX software sets allowCredentials(true) in exactly one place, against a single exact origin derived from ovsx.webui.url, and defines no CORS mapping on /user/ beyond it. No configuration of the software produces origin reflection with credentials.
Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS

