Headplane is a feature-complete Web UI for Headscale. Prior to versions 0.6.3 and 0.7.0-beta.3, Headplane was vulnerable to a path traversal / authorization bypass in the Headscale API client used by node and user rename operations. This issue has been patched in versions 0.6.3 and 0.7.0-beta.3.
PUBLISHED5.2CWE-22CWE-285
Headplane: Path Traversal + RBAC Bypass in renameNode allows authenticated OIDC users to expire or rename any node/user
Problem type
- CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
- CWE-285: Improper Authorization
Affected products
tale
headplane
< 0.6.3 - AFFECTED
>= 0.7.0-beta.1, < 0.7.0-beta.3 - AFFECTED
References
https://github.com/tale/headplane/security/advisories/GHSA-vgj6-hcf2-fqf6
https://github.com/tale/headplane/security/advisories/GHSA-vgj6-hcf2-fqf6
https://github.com/tale/headplane/releases/tag/v0.6.3
https://github.com/tale/headplane/releases/tag/v0.6.3
https://github.com/tale/headplane/releases/tag/v0.7.0-beta.3
https://github.com/tale/headplane/releases/tag/v0.7.0-beta.3
JSON source
https://cveawg.mitre.org/api/cve/CVE-2026-46484Click to expand
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