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GHSA-c73q-8xxr-rgqm

Tilt: Missing authentication on the network-exposed Tilt HUD server

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## Summary The Tilt HUD HTTP server exposes state-changing and sensitive-read endpoints with no authentication. When the HUD is bound to a non-loopback address, a network attacker can trigger the developer's pre-defined Tiltfile resources, tamper with Tiltfile arguments, read full engine state including the session token, and reach the Tilt apiserver through a token-attaching proxy.

## Details The HUD server registers its handlers on a `gorilla/mux` router with no authenticating middleware. The `cookieWrapper` helper emits the `Tilt-Token` cookie but never validates it, and is attached only to the static-asset prefix.

## Impact An unauthenticated network caller can force any developer-defined resource to run on the host as the `tilt` user (choosing which and when, not the command text), set arbitrary Tiltfile arguments, disclose the session token and full engine state, and invoke apiserver resources via the loopback-token proxy. Because `tilt up` runs with the developer's privileges and credentials, the impact reaches the developer's environment and cluster.

### Conditions for exploitation - Affected version in `>= 0.20.8, <= 0.37.3`. - HUD bound to a non-loopback address (`tilt up --host 0.0.0.0`, or `TILT_HOST` set). - Network reachability to the listener (default port `10350`).

### Not affected - The default loopback-only bind is not reachable from the network.

## Workarounds Use the default loopback bind (omit `--host`, unset `TILT_HOST`) and ensure nothing else proxies to `localhost:10350`. No complete workaround short of upgrading for non-loopback deployments.

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Affected packages

Go / github.com/tilt-dev/tilt
Introduced in: 0.20.8 Fixed in: 0.37.4
Fix go get github.com/tilt-dev/tilt@v0.37.4

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