EUVD-2026-321466

fkie_cve-2026-46431

Algernon is a small self-contained pure-Go web server. Prior to 1.17.7, the SSE event server's Access-Control-Allow-Origin response header was hardcoded to the wildcard * regardless of the caller's Origin. Because EventSource does not preflight and does not send cookies, the wildcard is sufficient to let any third-party page the developer visits open a cross-origin EventSource to the SSE port and read the live filename stream from JavaScript. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.17.7.

GHSA-hw27-4v2q-5qff — Algernon: Auto-refresh SSE event server sets Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *

Affected: Go: github.com/xyproto/algernon

### Summary

The SSE event server's `Access-Control-Allow-Origin` response header was hardcoded to the wildcard `*` regardless of the caller's `Origin`. Because `EventSource` does not preflight and does not send cookies, the wildcard is sufficient to let any third-party page the developer visits open a cross-origin `EventSource` to the SSE port and read the live filename stream from JavaScript. Combined with the lack of authentication (advisory #2a), no further trickery is required — any tab the developer opens has script-level read access to the stream.

This advisory covers the CORS configuration in isolation. The fix is independent of authentication and bind-address fixes: the wildcard could be replaced with a same-origin echo without touching either.

### Details

#### Root cause — hard-coded `"*"` passed as the CORS allowed-origin

```go // engine/config.go (1.17.6, MustServe) recwatch.EventServer(absdir, "*", ac.eventAddr, ac.defaultEventPath, ac.refreshDuration) ```

The literal `"*"` is the second positional argument. The vendored `recwatch` implementation reflects it verbatim into the response header:

```go // vendor/github.com/xyproto/recwatch/eventserver.go:100-108 (1.17.6) func GenFileChangeEvents(events TimeEventMap, mut *sync.Mutex, maxAge time.Duration, allowed string) http.HandlerFunc { return func(w http.ResponseWriter, _ *http.Request) { w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "text/event-stream;charset=utf-8") w.Header().Set("Cache-Control",…

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