Critical, CVSS 9.8GoPublished
NornicDB has Improper Network Binding in its Bolt Server, allowing unauthorized remote access
CVE-2026-42072 · GHSA-2hp7-65r3-wv54
- Affected
- Go github.com/orneryd/nornicdb < 1.0.42-hotfix
- Fixed in
- 1.0.42-hotfix· Vendor fix available
- Issue
- The --address CLI flag (and NORNICDBADDRESS / server.host config key) is plumbed through to the HTTP server correctly but never reaches the Bolt server config. The Bolt listener therefore always binds to the wildcard address (all interfaces), regardless of what the user configures. On a LAN, this exposes the graph database — with its default admin:password credentials — to any device sharing the network. Version - nornicdb v1.0.39 - Built from commit afe7c9d on main - Platform: macOS (darwin 25.4.0, arm64) Reproduction Output claims Bolt is on localhost: But the actual socket: HTTP port is correctly bound: Reachable from another host on the LAN: Setting NORNICDBBOLTADDRESS=127.0.0.1 or server.host: "127.0.0.1" in config.yaml has no effect on the Bolt listener. Root Cause In pkg/bolt/server.go:774-776: bolt.Config (line 474) has no Host/Address/Addr field — only Port. The CLI flag --address is stored in a local variable in cmd/nornicdb/main.go:80 and used to format user-facing…
Recommended action: Upgrade to 1.0.42-hotfix (pre-release) or later, then redeploy and verify.A vendor fix does not resolve your finding until you verify it in your own systems.