{"id":"CVE-2021-41101","aliases":["EUVD-2021-28240","GHSA-v7xx-cx8m-g66p"],"status":"published","title":"CORS `Access-Control-Allow-Origin` settings are too lenient","description":"wire-server is an open-source back end for Wire, a secure collaboration platform. Before version 2.106.0, the CORS ` Access-Control-Allow-Origin ` header set by `nginz` is set for all subdomains of `.wire.com` (including `wire.com`). This means that if somebody were to find an XSS vector in any of the subdomains, they could use it to talk to the Wire API using the user's Cookie. A patch does not exist, but a workaround does. To make sure that a compromise of one subdomain does not yield access to the cookie of another, one may limit the `Access-Control-Allow-Origin` header to apps that actually require the cookie (account-pages, team-settings and the webapp).","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":5.7,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-11","score":0.00708,"percentile":0.53894,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-79"],"published":"2021-09-30T19:20:09Z","modified":"2026-10-20T10:53:56Z","products":[{"vendor":"wire","product":"wire_server"},{"vendor":"wireapp","product":"wire-server"}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/wireapp/wire-server/security/advisories/GHSA-v7xx-cx8m-g66p","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM","x_transferred","Third Party Advisory","advisory"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2021-41101","title":"CORS `Access-Control-Allow-Origin` settings are too lenient","description":"wire-server is an open-source back end for Wire, a secure collaboration platform. 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To make sure that a compromise of one subdomain does not yield access to the cookie of another, one may limit the `Access-Control-Allow-Origin` header to apps that actually require the cookie (account-pages, team-settings and the webapp).","status":"published","published":"2021-09-30T19:20:09Z","modified":"2024-08-04T02:59:31.532Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":5.7,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"cna"}],"cwes":["CWE-79"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:32:59.105382Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2021-28240","description":"wire-server is an open-source back end for Wire, a secure collaboration platform. Before version 2.106.0, the CORS ` Access-Control-Allow-Origin ` header set by `nginz` is set for all subdomains of `.wire.com` (including `wire.com`). This means that if somebody were to find an XSS vector in any of the subdomains, they could use it to talk to the Wire API using the user's Cookie. A patch does not exist, but a workaround does. To make sure that a compromise of one subdomain does not yield access to the cookie of another, one may limit the `Access-Control-Allow-Origin` header to apps that actually require the cookie (account-pages, team-settings and the webapp).","status":"published","published":"2021-09-30T19:20:09Z","modified":"2024-08-04T02:59:31Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":5.7,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","level":"medium"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-03T03:24:18.784846Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2021-41101","description":"wire-server is an open-source back end for Wire, a secure collaboration platform. Before version 2.106.0, the CORS ` Access-Control-Allow-Origin ` header set by `nginz` is set for all subdomains of `.wire.com` (including `wire.com`). This means that if somebody were to find an XSS vector in any of the subdomains, they could use it to talk to the Wire API using the user's Cookie. A patch does not exist, but a workaround does. To make sure that a compromise of one subdomain does not yield access to the cookie of another, one may limit the `Access-Control-Allow-Origin` header to apps that actually require the cookie (account-pages, team-settings and the webapp).","status":"published","published":"2021-09-30T20:15:07.587Z","modified":"2026-06-17T04:07:52.71Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":5.7,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"secondary"},{"version":"2.0","score":3.5,"vector":"AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N","level":"low","assessor":"primary"}],"cwes":["CWE-79"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:06:59.314106Z"}],"osv":[{"id":"CVE-2021-41101","description":"wire-server is an open-source back end for Wire, a secure collaboration platform. Before version 2.106.0, the CORS ` Access-Control-Allow-Origin ` header set by `nginz` is set for all subdomains of `.wire.com` (including `wire.com`). This means that if somebody were to find an XSS vector in any of the subdomains, they could use it to talk to the Wire API using the user's Cookie. A patch does not exist, but a workaround does. To make sure that a compromise of one subdomain does not yield access to the cookie of another, one may limit the `Access-Control-Allow-Origin` header to apps that actually require the cookie (account-pages, team-settings and the webapp).","status":"published","published":"2021-09-30T20:15:07.587Z","modified":"2026-10-20T10:53:56.04983838Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":5.7,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","level":"medium"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:44:21.249056Z"}]}}