GHSA-3CC2-H3V6-RQPQ

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-10-02 22:46 – Updated: 2026-10-02 22:46
VLAI
Summary
SiYuan: Cross-Site WebSocket Hijacking on the admin-only network proxy endpoint (`/ws/network/proxy`) via explicit `CheckOrigin: true` bypass
Details

High

Package

gomod github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan/kernel

Affected versions

3.7.3

Patched versions

(none yet — leave blank until a fix is released)

Description

Summary

/ws/network/proxy is an admin-only WebSocket forward-proxy endpoint (target URL and headers fully attacker-specifiable via query parameters). Its websocket.Upgrader explicitly overrides CheckOrigin to unconditionally return true — disabling the origin validation that the gorilla/websocket library otherwise enforces by default. WebSocket handshake requests are not subject to CORS preflight at all (unlike fetch/XHR), so origin validation for WebSocket endpoints has to be done deliberately by the server; here it has been deliberately turned off instead. Combined with the endpoint's own query-parameter-driven proxy target, this is a textbook Cross-Site WebSocket Hijacking (CSWSH) primitive on a capability that amounts to an authenticated network pivot through the SiYuan kernel process.

Details

// kernel/api/network.go:501
upgrader := websocket.Upgrader{
    CheckOrigin: func(r *http.Request) bool { return true },
}
clientConn, upgradeErr := upgrader.Upgrade(c.Writer, c.Request, upgradeHeaders)

Route registration (admin-role-gated):

// kernel/api/router.go:614
ginServer.Handle("GET", "/ws/network/proxy", model.CheckAuth, model.CheckAdminRole, wsProxy)

The proxy target is fully attacker-controllable via query parameters, decoded and dialed directly:

// kernel/api/network.go:348
func parseForwardProxyParams(c *gin.Context) (parsedURL *url.URL, headers *http.Header, timeout time.Duration, err error) {
    uParam := c.Query("u")
    ...
    uBytes, decErr := base64.RawURLEncoding.DecodeString(uParam)
    ...
    parsedURL, err = url.ParseRequestURI(string(uBytes))
    ...
    hParam := c.Query("h")   // optional forwarded headers, also base64-encoded

A malicious webpage can construct, entirely from JavaScript with no special access:

new WebSocket("ws://127.0.0.1:6806/ws/network/proxy?u=" + base64url(attackerChosenTargetURL));

WebSocket handshake requests are GET requests carrying ambient cookies exactly like any other cross-site navigation, and are not covered by CORS preflight protections at all, this is a distinct attack surface from ordinary fetch/XHR-based CSRF, and easy to overlook precisely because the usual CORS mental model doesn't apply to it. Whether this is currently exploitable in a given browser depends on the same session-cookie SameSite configuration already covered by a separate report on this repository (no explicit SameSite is set on the session cookie), but even where that provides incidental protection today, the explicit CheckOrigin: func(r *http.Request) bool { return true } override removes a defense-in-depth layer that would otherwise exist automatically from the WebSocket library's own safe default, and is worth fixing independently of the cookie-attribute question.

Impact

If reachable (dependent on browser/cookie-attribute behavior at time of exploitation, as above), a malicious website visited by a user with an active, admin-privileged SiYuan session could open a WebSocket connection to this endpoint and direct the SiYuan kernel process to proxy arbitrary network traffic to an attacker-chosen target, effectively an authenticated SSRF/network-pivot primitive, using the victim's own machine and any network position it has (e.g., internal/localhost-only services on the victim's LAN that aren't reachable from the public internet), entirely via a drive-by visit to an unrelated website while SiYuan happens to be running.

PoC

No live browser PoC was run for this report, this is a code-level confirmation that the CheckOrigin override exists and unconditionally returns true, combined with tracing the fully attacker-controlled proxy-target construction. I also checked whether the other WebSocket-adjacent endpoints (/ws/plugin/rpc, /ws/broadcast) share this issue: they use a different WebSocket library (gws, not gorilla/websocket) with a different upgrade code path I have not independently verified for its own origin-checking defaults, flagging this as worth a follow-up check by your team rather than claiming it applies there too.

## Affected products

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Ecosystem | **Go** |
| Package name | `github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan/kernel` |
| Affected versions | `<= 3.7.3` (confirmed present in 3.7.3; maintainers should confirm lower bound) |
| Patched versions | *(none yet — leave blank until a fix is released)* |

## Severity

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Vector string | `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:N` |
| Score | **5.5 (Medium)**, reflecting that real-world exploitability depends on the co-occurring session-cookie `SameSite` question (also separately reported) and requires a victim with an active admin session to visit an attacker-controlled page (`AC:H`, `UI:R`); I'd expect this to be scored higher by your team if you determine the cookie/browser-behavior precondition is reliably met, since the underlying capability (network pivot through the kernel process) is significant. |

## Weaknesses (CWE)

- **CWE-346** — Origin Validation Error (primary — this is the textbook CWE for CSWSH)
- **CWE-352** — Cross-Site Request Forgery (the broader category this specific WebSocket variant falls under)
- **CWE-918** — Server-Side Request Forgery (secondary — the resulting capability once a connection is hijacked)
-

Suggested Fix

Replace CheckOrigin: func(r *http.Request) bool { return true } with a real check — validate the Origin header against the expected local/loopback origin (or the configured workspace's own address), mirroring how IsLoopbackCallback-style validation is already done correctly elsewhere in this codebase (e.g. the MCP OAuth client's loopback-callback check). Also worth auditing the gws-based WebSocket endpoints (/ws/plugin/rpc, /ws/broadcast) for their own origin-validation defaults, since I did not verify those independently.

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      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
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              "fixed": "0.0.0-20260803045322-cb67e0b4fab5"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2026-74802"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-346",
      "CWE-352",
      "CWE-918"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2026-10-02T22:46:18Z",
    "nvd_published_at": null,
    "severity": "LOW"
  },
  "details": "**High**\n\n## Package\ngomod `github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan/kernel`\n\n## Affected versions\n3.7.3\n\n## Patched versions\n*(none yet \u2014 leave blank until a fix is released)*\n\n## Description\n\n### Summary\n`/ws/network/proxy` is an admin-only WebSocket forward-proxy endpoint (target URL and headers fully attacker-specifiable via query parameters). Its `websocket.Upgrader` explicitly overrides `CheckOrigin` to unconditionally return `true` \u2014 disabling the origin validation that the `gorilla/websocket` library otherwise enforces **by default**. WebSocket handshake requests are not subject to CORS preflight at all (unlike `fetch`/XHR), so origin validation for WebSocket endpoints has to be done deliberately by the server; here it has been deliberately turned *off* instead. Combined with the endpoint\u0027s own query-parameter-driven proxy target, this is a textbook Cross-Site WebSocket Hijacking (CSWSH) primitive on a capability that amounts to an authenticated network pivot through the SiYuan kernel process.\n\n### Details\n\n```go\n// kernel/api/network.go:501\nupgrader := websocket.Upgrader{\n    CheckOrigin: func(r *http.Request) bool { return true },\n}\nclientConn, upgradeErr := upgrader.Upgrade(c.Writer, c.Request, upgradeHeaders)\n```\n\nRoute registration (admin-role-gated):\n```go\n// kernel/api/router.go:614\nginServer.Handle(\"GET\", \"/ws/network/proxy\", model.CheckAuth, model.CheckAdminRole, wsProxy)\n```\n\nThe proxy target is fully attacker-controllable via query parameters, decoded and dialed directly:\n```go\n// kernel/api/network.go:348\nfunc parseForwardProxyParams(c *gin.Context) (parsedURL *url.URL, headers *http.Header, timeout time.Duration, err error) {\n    uParam := c.Query(\"u\")\n    ...\n    uBytes, decErr := base64.RawURLEncoding.DecodeString(uParam)\n    ...\n    parsedURL, err = url.ParseRequestURI(string(uBytes))\n    ...\n    hParam := c.Query(\"h\")   // optional forwarded headers, also base64-encoded\n```\n\nA malicious webpage can construct, entirely from JavaScript with no special access:\n```js\nnew WebSocket(\"ws://127.0.0.1:6806/ws/network/proxy?u=\" + base64url(attackerChosenTargetURL));\n```\nWebSocket handshake requests are GET requests carrying ambient cookies exactly like any other cross-site navigation, and are not covered by CORS preflight protections at all, this is a distinct attack surface from ordinary `fetch`/XHR-based CSRF, and easy to overlook precisely because the usual CORS mental model doesn\u0027t apply to it. Whether this is currently exploitable in a given browser depends on the same session-cookie `SameSite` configuration already covered by a separate report on this repository (no explicit `SameSite` is set on the session cookie), but even where that provides incidental protection today, the explicit `CheckOrigin: func(r *http.Request) bool { return true }` override removes a defense-in-depth layer that would otherwise exist automatically from the WebSocket library\u0027s own safe default, and is worth fixing independently of the cookie-attribute question.\n\n### Impact\nIf reachable (dependent on browser/cookie-attribute behavior at time of exploitation, as above), a malicious website visited by a user with an active, admin-privileged SiYuan session could open a WebSocket connection to this endpoint and direct the SiYuan kernel process to proxy arbitrary network traffic to an attacker-chosen target, effectively an authenticated SSRF/network-pivot primitive, using the victim\u0027s own machine and any network position it has (e.g., internal/localhost-only services on the victim\u0027s LAN that aren\u0027t reachable from the public internet), entirely via a drive-by visit to an unrelated website while SiYuan happens to be running.\n\n### PoC\nNo live browser PoC was run for this report, this is a code-level confirmation that the `CheckOrigin` override exists and unconditionally returns `true`, combined with tracing the fully attacker-controlled proxy-target construction. I also checked whether the other WebSocket-adjacent endpoints (`/ws/plugin/rpc`, `/ws/broadcast`) share this issue: they use a different WebSocket library (`gws`, not `gorilla/websocket`) with a different upgrade code path I have not independently verified for its own origin-checking defaults, flagging this as worth a follow-up check by your team rather than claiming it applies there too.\n\n```\n## Affected products\n\n| Field | Value |\n|---|---|\n| Ecosystem | **Go** |\n| Package name | `github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan/kernel` |\n| Affected versions | `\u003c= 3.7.3` (confirmed present in 3.7.3; maintainers should confirm lower bound) |\n| Patched versions | *(none yet \u2014 leave blank until a fix is released)* |\n\n## Severity\n\n| Field | Value |\n|---|---|\n| Vector string | `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:N` |\n| Score | **5.5 (Medium)**, reflecting that real-world exploitability depends on the co-occurring session-cookie `SameSite` question (also separately reported) and requires a victim with an active admin session to visit an attacker-controlled page (`AC:H`, `UI:R`); I\u0027d expect this to be scored higher by your team if you determine the cookie/browser-behavior precondition is reliably met, since the underlying capability (network pivot through the kernel process) is significant. |\n\n## Weaknesses (CWE)\n\n- **CWE-346** \u2014 Origin Validation Error (primary \u2014 this is the textbook CWE for CSWSH)\n- **CWE-352** \u2014 Cross-Site Request Forgery (the broader category this specific WebSocket variant falls under)\n- **CWE-918** \u2014 Server-Side Request Forgery (secondary \u2014 the resulting capability once a connection is hijacked)\n-\n```\n\n## Suggested Fix\nReplace `CheckOrigin: func(r *http.Request) bool { return true }` with a real check \u2014 validate the `Origin` header against the expected local/loopback origin (or the configured workspace\u0027s own address), mirroring how `IsLoopbackCallback`-style validation is already done correctly elsewhere in this codebase (e.g. the MCP OAuth client\u0027s loopback-callback check). Also worth auditing the `gws`-based WebSocket endpoints (`/ws/plugin/rpc`, `/ws/broadcast`) for their own origin-validation defaults, since I did not verify those independently.",
  "id": "GHSA-3cc2-h3v6-rqpq",
  "modified": "2026-10-02T22:46:18Z",
  "published": "2026-10-02T22:46:18Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan/security/advisories/GHSA-3cc2-h3v6-rqpq"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-74802"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan/commit/cb67e0b4fab57c9c5f458c1fd0df5ecf4417b696"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan/releases/tag/v3.8.0"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/siyuan-cross-site-websocket-hijacking-via-network-proxy"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "SiYuan: Cross-Site WebSocket Hijacking on the admin-only network proxy endpoint (`/ws/network/proxy`) via explicit `CheckOrigin: true` bypass"
}



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