{"id":81442,"date":"2026-07-03T13:41:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T10:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-10054-eclipse-theia-insecure-websocket-terminal-access\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T13:41:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T10:11:32","slug":"cve-2026-10054-eclipse-theia-insecure-websocket-terminal-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-10054-eclipse-theia-insecure-websocket-terminal-access\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-10054 &#8211; Eclipse Theia: Insecure WebSocket Terminal Access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-10054<\/p>\n<p>  Published : July 3, 2026, 10:11 a.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 35\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>  Description :In affected versions of Eclipse Theia (1.8.1 and later), the browser backend exposes privileged terminal RPC over WebSocket (\/services\/shell-terminal, \/services\/terminals\/:id) without service-level authentication.<\/p>\n<p>WebSocket origin validation in @theia\/core is fail-open: connections are accepted when the Origin header is missing or when no THEIA_HOSTS allowlist is configured (the default). The Socket.IO integration additionally replaces the real Origin header with a client-supplied fix-origin header that an attacker can control or omit.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, a foreign-origin web page visited by a user with a running Theia instance can open the \/services WebSocket namespace, invoke terminal creation, attach to the resulting terminal data channel, execute arbitrary OS commands, and read their output. This affects both local developer setups (drive-by attack) and hosted or tunneled deployments without strong external authentication.<\/p>\n<p>A fix is in development that enforces same-origin validation by default, removes trust in the fix-origin header, gates HTTP and WebSocket access on a SameSite=Strict; HttpOnly connection-token cookie, and sanitizes shell terminal creation options.<\/p>\n<p>  Severity: 8.8 | HIGH<\/p>\n<p>  Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-10054 Published : July 3, 2026, 10:11 a.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 35\u00a0minutes ago Description :In affected versions of Eclipse Theia (1.8.1 and later), the browser backend exposes privileged terminal RPC over WebSocket (\/services\/shell-terminal, \/services\/terminals\/:id) without service-level authentication. WebSocket origin validation in @theia\/core is fail-open: connections are accepted when the Origin header is missing or &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}