# CVE-2026-57210: Heimdall: IP Spoofing via Unvalidated Forwarding Headers

- Also known as: EUVD-2026-108750, GHSA-38X9-25WX-7FG2, GO-2026-5075
- Severity: CVSS 7.0 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.17.17
- Published: 2026-10-23 · Updated: 2026-10-29

## Summary

Heimdall, a cloud native Identity Aware Proxy and Access Control Decision service, is affected when its trusted_proxies option is configured. Attackers can supply arbitrary or malformed client IP values through the Forwarded and X-Forwarded-For headers, which Heimdall passes to its rule pipeline unvalidated, potentially allowing IP-based access control decisions to be bypassed or misled.

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## Affected

- dadrus heimdall: fixed in 0.17.17
- https://github.com/dadrus/heimdall (Go): fixed in 0.17.17
- github.com/dadrus/heimdall (Go): fixed in 0.17.17

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on dadrus heimdall, https://github.com/dadrus/heimdall, github.com/dadrus/heimdall, upgrade to a fixed version (0.17.17) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/dadrus/heimdall/security/advisories/GHSA-38x9-25wx-7fg2
- https://github.com/dadrus/heimdall/releases/tag/v0.17.17

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