ts-2026-017
Vulnerability from tailscale
Description: HTTP/2 shared serve context could send the wrong Tailscale-App-Capabilities values across mounts.
What happened?
Tailscale Serve can proxy requests to local backends allowing private services to be shared on your tailnet. When enabled with TLS, the server advertises HTTP/2 and all streams on one connection shared a single serveHTTPContext. A race condition occurred because the handler wrote AppCapabilities per request while the reverse proxy read them in a shared hook. Concurrent streams on the same connection could race on this field, causing capabilities from one mount to bleed into requests for another mount.
Tailscale now derives request capabilities from a per-request context rather than sharing state across all streams on an HTTP/2 connection.
This vulnerability is fixed in Tailscale version 1.104.4 or newer.
What was the impact?
Applications that inspect a request's Tailscale-App-Capabilities to authorize a peer might have made incorrect decisions based on capability headers intended for another application. A peer holding a capability for one mount could potentially receive privileged responses from a different mount they are not authorized to access.
Who was affected?
This affects nodes with serve TLS enabled and at least two mounts with different capability requirements on the same node. The issue requires concurrent streams multiplexed on a single connection.
What do I need to do?
If you use Tailscale Serve with TLS enabled, upgrade to Tailscale version 1.104.4 or newer.
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