Authorization bypass through user-controlled key in the localhost port-proxy (/p/<token>/) in Posit Software, PBC RStudio Server and Posit Workbench before 2026.08.0 allows remote authenticated users to reach web applications and other services bound to 127.0.0.1 under a different user's session, and to view their live rendered content and data, via a proxy URL constructed from the attacker's own port token for an arbitrary port number. The port token is a documented obfuscation measure and not an authorization boundary, and the proxy does not verify that the requested port belongs to the requesting user's session.
NOTE: exploitation requires an authenticated account on the same multi-user server and a target service listening on localhost at the time of access. Impact may be greater on hosts that co-locate additional privileged localhost services, and the bypass is not prevented by allow-shell=false; no setting restricts the port-proxy without disabling all application proxying.
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| Description | Authorization bypass through user-controlled key in the localhost port-proxy (/p/<token>/) in Posit Software, PBC RStudio Server and Posit Workbench before 2026.08.0 allows remote authenticated users to reach web applications and other services bound to 127.0.0.1 under a different user's session, and to view their live rendered content and data, via a proxy URL constructed from the attacker's own port token for an arbitrary port number. The port token is a documented obfuscation measure and not an authorization boundary, and the proxy does not verify that the requested port belongs to the requesting user's session. NOTE: exploitation requires an authenticated account on the same multi-user server and a target service listening on localhost at the time of access. Impact may be greater on hosts that co-locate additional privileged localhost services, and the bypass is not prevented by allow-shell=false; no setting restricts the port-proxy without disabling all application proxying. | |
| Title | RStudio Server / Posit Workbench localhost port-proxy does not enforce per-session port ownership | |
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Posit
Posit rstudio Server Posit workbench |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-639 CWE-862 |
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| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:posit:rstudio_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:posit:workbench:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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Posit rstudio Server Posit workbench |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: POSIT
Published: 2026-11-06T15:10:37.306Z
Updated: 2026-11-06T17:45:27.737Z
Reserved: 2026-11-04T10:49:21.246Z
Link: CVE-2026-121880
Updated: 2026-11-06T17:45:22.097Z
Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2026-11-06T16:17:52.943
Modified: 2026-11-06T20:38:53.570
Link: CVE-2026-121880
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