# CVE-2026-108372: LoopX serve-status permissive CORS policy exposes control-plane state and private Markdown files

- Also known as: GHSA-VX2M-GPQ4-8J5Q
- Severity: CVSS 7.1 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- GitHub_M rates this high
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.4.5
- Published: 2026-10-16 · Updated: 2026-10-21

## Affected

- huangruiteng loopx: from 0.0.1, fixed in 0.4.5
- loopx (PyPI): from 0.0.1, fixed in 0.4.5

## Description

Open and provider-neutral, LoopX is a lightweight state kernel and local-first control plane for loop engineering. From version 0.0.1 until 0.4.5, `loopx serve-status` in `loopx/status_server.py` uses `StatusRequestHandler._send_json()` and `do_OPTIONS()` to send `Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *` for unauthenticated responses on predictable loopback ports. A remote attacker can cause an operator who visits attacker-controlled web content to issue cross-origin requests to `GET /status.json`, `GET /review-material?goal_id=...&path=...`, `GET /`, and `POST /control-plane/configure-goal/dry-run`, exposing control-plane state, goal and run information, local absolute paths, private Markdown files below registered goal roots, and dry-run configuration projections. The affected routes do not provide cross-origin writes or arbitrary-file access. This issue is fixed in version 0.4.5.

## What to do

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## References

- https://github.com/loopx-project/loopx/security/advisories/GHSA-vx2m-gpq4-8j5q
- https://github.com/loopx-project/loopx/pull/3137
- https://github.com/loopx-project/loopx/commit/838720fba42bd22f71b5bb763ec406f7bdf4c940
- https://github.com/loopx-project/loopx/releases/tag/v0.4.5

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