CVE-2026-91164: warp-tech warpgate Improper Access Control

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-91164 is a medium (CVSS 4.3) Improper Access Control vulnerability in warp-tech warpgate. EPSS estimates a 0.42% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 35.1% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 21-09-2026
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 21-09-2026
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Warpgate is an open source SSH, HTTPS and MySQL bastion host for Linux. From 0.23.0 until 0.27.3, HTTP API token authentication resolves ConfigProvider::validate_api_token into RequestAuthorization::UserToken without enforcing the owning user's allowed_ip_ranges against the trusted client address in warpgate-protocol-http/src/common.rs. An attacker holding a leaked, phished, or exfiltrated X-Warpgate-Token can therefore use it from a prohibited network location. Deployments without allowed_ip_ranges are unaffected, and HTTP target proxying plus SSH, MySQL, PostgreSQL, RDP, VNC, and Kubernetes paths do not accept this vulnerable HTTP token flow. This issue is fixed in version 0.27.3.

• CWE-284Improper Access ControlThe product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor.
• CWE-863Incorrect AuthorizationThe product performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action, but it does not correctly perform the check.