diff --git a/apps/vis/server/src/app.ts b/apps/vis/server/src/app.ts
index e2670b12..d49e88c6 100644
--- a/apps/vis/server/src/app.ts
+++ b/apps/vis/server/src/app.ts
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ import { join, resolve } from 'node:path';
 
 import { Hono } from 'hono';
 
+import { resolveHost } from './config';
+import { hostGuard } from './host-guard';
 import { contextRoute } from './routes/context';
 import { sessionDetailRoute } from './routes/session-detail';
 import { sessionsRoute } from './routes/sessions';
@@ -51,6 +53,11 @@ function mimeFor(path: string): string {
 
 export interface CreateAppOptions {
   readonly authToken?: string;
+  /** Host the server is bound to; used by the no-token DNS-rebinding guard.
+   *  Defaults to resolveHost(). */
+  readonly host?: string;
+  /** Raw comma-separated VIS_ALLOWED_HOSTS value for the no-token guard. */
+  readonly allowedHosts?: string;
 }
 
 function bearerToken(value: string | undefined): string | null {
@@ -69,9 +76,22 @@ function tokenMatches(actual: string, expected: string): boolean {
 export async function createApp(options: CreateAppOptions = {}): Promise<Hono> {
   const app = new Hono();
 
+  const authToken = options.authToken;
+
+  // DNS-rebinding guard. Only meaningful in the no-token loopback mode: when a
+  // token is configured (required for any non-loopback bind), the token is the
+  // access control and a rebinding attacker cannot read it cross-origin, so a
+  // Host allow-list would only break legitimate LAN / wildcard access. Mounted
+  // before the routes so it covers /api/* and the static fallback alike.
+  if (authToken === undefined || authToken.length === 0) {
+    app.use(
+      '*',
+      hostGuard({ bindHost: options.host ?? resolveHost(), allowedHosts: options.allowedHosts }),
+    );
+  }
+
   // /api/* handlers.
   const api = new Hono();
-  const authToken = options.authToken;
   if (authToken !== undefined && authToken.length > 0) {
     api.use('*', async (c, next) => {
       const token = bearerToken(c.req.header('authorization'));
diff --git a/apps/vis/server/src/config.ts b/apps/vis/server/src/config.ts
index 1a719f32..c8b151c1 100644
--- a/apps/vis/server/src/config.ts
+++ b/apps/vis/server/src/config.ts
@@ -29,13 +29,20 @@ export function resolveHost(): string {
   return host !== undefined && host.length > 0 ? host : '127.0.0.1';
 }
 
+/** Strict dotted-quad match for the 127.0.0.0/8 loopback range. Anchored so a
+ *  hostname that merely *starts with* `127.` (e.g. `127.0.0.1.nip.io`) is not
+ *  mistaken for a loopback address. */
+const LOOPBACK_IPV4 = /^127\.(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4]\d|1?\d?\d)(?:\.(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4]\d|1?\d?\d)){2}$/u;
+
 export function isLoopbackHost(host: string): boolean {
   const normalized = host.trim().toLowerCase().replaceAll('[', '').replaceAll(']', '');
   return (
     normalized === 'localhost' ||
+    // RFC 6761: `localhost.` and any `*.localhost` name resolves to loopback.
+    normalized.endsWith('.localhost') ||
     normalized === '::1' ||
     normalized === '0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1' ||
-    normalized.startsWith('127.')
+    LOOPBACK_IPV4.test(normalized)
   );
 }
 
diff --git a/apps/vis/server/src/host-guard.ts b/apps/vis/server/src/host-guard.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2891af30
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps/vis/server/src/host-guard.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,120 @@
+import type { Context, Next } from 'hono';
+
+import { isLoopbackHost } from './config';
+
+/** Extract the hostname (without port) from a Host header or URL authority.
+ *  Handles IPv6 bracket form (`[::1]:3001`), bare IPv6 literals (`2001:db8::1`),
+ *  and `host:port`. Returns null for empty/missing input.
+ *
+ *  A malformed authority is returned verbatim (lowercased) rather than coerced,
+ *  so it fails every allow check instead of being silently reduced to a value
+ *  that looks allowed (e.g. `[::1]evil.com` must not become `::1`). */
+export function hostnameFromAuthority(authority: string | undefined | null): string | null {
+  if (authority === undefined || authority === null) return null;
+  const trimmed = authority.trim();
+  if (trimmed.length === 0) return null;
+  if (trimmed.startsWith('[')) {
+    const end = trimmed.indexOf(']');
+    if (end < 0) return trimmed.toLowerCase(); // unterminated bracket → cannot match
+    const rest = trimmed.slice(end + 1);
+    // After the closing bracket only an empty string or `:port` is valid; any
+    // other trailing text means the authority is malformed — don't let the
+    // bracketed prefix masquerade as the real host.
+    if (rest.length > 0 && !/^:\d+$/u.test(rest)) return trimmed.toLowerCase();
+    return trimmed.slice(1, end).toLowerCase();
+  }
+  const firstColon = trimmed.indexOf(':');
+  if (firstColon < 0) return trimmed.toLowerCase();
+  // An unbracketed authority with more than one colon is a bare IPv6 literal
+  // with no port (a port requires bracket form), so the whole string is the
+  // host. A single colon is an ordinary `host:port`.
+  if (trimmed.includes(':', firstColon + 1)) return trimmed.toLowerCase();
+  return trimmed.slice(0, firstColon).toLowerCase();
+}
+
+/** Wildcard bind addresses (`0.0.0.0`, `::`) mean "every interface" and never
+ *  appear as a concrete client's Host, so they cannot serve as a match target. */
+function isWildcardHost(host: string): boolean {
+  return host === '0.0.0.0' || host === '::' || host === '0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0';
+}
+
+function parseAllowedHosts(raw: string | undefined): ReadonlySet<string> {
+  const set = new Set<string>();
+  if (raw === undefined) return set;
+  for (const part of raw.split(',')) {
+    const h = hostnameFromAuthority(part);
+    if (h !== null) set.add(h);
+  }
+  return set;
+}
+
+/** Decide whether a single request hostname is one we expect to serve. Loopback
+ *  names are always allowed (a DNS-rebinding attacker cannot forge a loopback
+ *  Host from a browser). Otherwise the hostname must match the configured bind
+ *  host or an explicit allow-list entry. */
+function hostnameAllowed(
+  hostname: string,
+  normalizedBindHost: string,
+  allowedHosts: ReadonlySet<string>,
+): boolean {
+  if (isLoopbackHost(hostname)) return true;
+  if (allowedHosts.has(hostname)) return true;
+  if (normalizedBindHost.length > 0 && hostname === normalizedBindHost) return true;
+  return false;
+}
+
+export interface HostGuardOptions {
+  /** The host the server is bound to (e.g. resolveHost()). */
+  readonly bindHost: string;
+  /** Raw comma-separated VIS_ALLOWED_HOSTS value, if any. */
+  readonly allowedHosts?: string;
+}
+
+/** Hono middleware that rejects requests whose Host header / URL authority is
+ *  neither a loopback name nor an explicitly allowed host.
+ *
+ *  This is a DNS-rebinding defense for the *no-token loopback* mode: the vis
+ *  server binds to loopback by default and serves no auth token there, so
+ *  without this check any web page the user visits could rebind its own
+ *  hostname to 127.0.0.1 and read or delete the user's local agent sessions
+ *  cross-origin. A browser performing that attack still sends the *original*
+ *  attacker hostname in the Host header, which will not match a loopback name
+ *  or the configured bind host. When an auth token is configured the token is
+ *  the access control — a rebinding attacker cannot read it cross-origin — so
+ *  this guard is not installed in that mode (see createApp), which keeps LAN /
+ *  wildcard binds working without listing every reachable host. */
+export function hostGuard(options: HostGuardOptions) {
+  const allowedHosts = parseAllowedHosts(options.allowedHosts);
+  const bindHost = hostnameFromAuthority(options.bindHost) ?? '';
+  const normalizedBindHost = isWildcardHost(bindHost) ? '' : bindHost;
+
+  return async (c: Context, next: Next): Promise<Response | void> => {
+    // Collect every hostname the request claims. In @hono/node-server the URL
+    // authority is built from the client's Host header, so both reflect what a
+    // rebinding attacker controls; require all present hostnames to be allowed.
+    const hostnames: string[] = [];
+    try {
+      const fromUrl = hostnameFromAuthority(new URL(c.req.url).host);
+      if (fromUrl !== null) hostnames.push(fromUrl);
+    } catch {
+      // ignore unparseable URL; fall back to the Host header below
+    }
+    const fromHeader = hostnameFromAuthority(c.req.header('host'));
+    if (fromHeader !== null) hostnames.push(fromHeader);
+
+    const ok =
+      hostnames.length > 0 &&
+      hostnames.every((h) => hostnameAllowed(h, normalizedBindHost, allowedHosts));
+    if (!ok) {
+      return c.json(
+        {
+          error:
+            'forbidden host: request Host is not loopback, the configured bind host, or in VIS_ALLOWED_HOSTS',
+          code: 'FORBIDDEN_HOST',
+        },
+        403,
+      );
+    }
+    await next();
+  };
+}
diff --git a/apps/vis/server/src/index.ts b/apps/vis/server/src/index.ts
index e97d6603..90875f05 100644
--- a/apps/vis/server/src/index.ts
+++ b/apps/vis/server/src/index.ts
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import { formatStartupBanner } from './startup-banner';
 async function main(): Promise<void> {
   const host = resolveHost();
   const authToken = resolveVisAuthToken(host);
-  const app = await createApp({ authToken });
+  const app = await createApp({ authToken, host, allowedHosts: process.env['VIS_ALLOWED_HOSTS'] });
   const port = resolvePort();
   serve({ fetch: app.fetch, hostname: host, port }, (info) => {
     // Startup banner.
diff --git a/apps/vis/server/test/host-guard.test.ts b/apps/vis/server/test/host-guard.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ac367d0f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps/vis/server/test/host-guard.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,110 @@
+// apps/vis/server/test/host-guard.test.ts
+import { Hono } from 'hono';
+import { afterEach, describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
+
+import { createApp } from '../src/app';
+import { isLoopbackHost } from '../src/config';
+import { hostGuard, hostnameFromAuthority } from '../src/host-guard';
+
+/** Minimal app exercising only the guard, so assertions don't depend on the
+ *  session routes or KIMI_CODE_HOME. */
+function guarded(options: { bindHost: string; allowedHosts?: string }): Hono {
+  const app = new Hono();
+  app.use('*', hostGuard(options));
+  app.get('/api/ping', (c) => c.json({ ok: true }));
+  return app;
+}
+
+describe('hostnameFromAuthority', () => {
+  it('parses host:port and bare hostnames', () => {
+    expect(hostnameFromAuthority('example.com:3001')).toBe('example.com');
+    expect(hostnameFromAuthority('127.0.0.1')).toBe('127.0.0.1');
+    expect(hostnameFromAuthority('  Example.COM  ')).toBe('example.com');
+    expect(hostnameFromAuthority('')).toBeNull();
+    expect(hostnameFromAuthority(undefined)).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it('does not truncate bare IPv6 literals at the first colon', () => {
+    expect(hostnameFromAuthority('2001:db8::10')).toBe('2001:db8::10');
+    expect(hostnameFromAuthority('[2001:db8::10]:3001')).toBe('2001:db8::10');
+    expect(hostnameFromAuthority('[::1]')).toBe('::1');
+  });
+
+  it('does not let trailing junk after a bracket masquerade as the host', () => {
+    // `[::1]evil.com` must NOT normalize to the loopback `::1`.
+    const parsed = hostnameFromAuthority('[::1]evil.com');
+    expect(parsed).not.toBe('::1');
+    expect(isLoopbackHost(parsed ?? '')).toBe(false);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('isLoopbackHost', () => {
+  it('accepts loopback names and the 127.0.0.0/8 range', () => {
+    for (const h of ['localhost', 'tenant.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '127.0.0.2', '::1', '[::1]']) {
+      expect(isLoopbackHost(h), h).toBe(true);
+    }
+  });
+
+  it('rejects hostnames that merely start with 127.', () => {
+    for (const h of ['127.0.0.1.nip.io', '127.evil.com', '1270.0.0.1', '127.0.0.256']) {
+      expect(isLoopbackHost(h), h).toBe(false);
+    }
+  });
+});
+
+describe('hostGuard (DNS-rebinding defense)', () => {
+  it('rejects a rebound non-loopback Host', async () => {
+    const app = guarded({ bindHost: '127.0.0.1' });
+    const res = await app.request('http://attacker.example/api/ping');
+    expect(res.status).toBe(403);
+    await expect(res.json()).resolves.toMatchObject({ code: 'FORBIDDEN_HOST' });
+  });
+
+  it('allows loopback and *.localhost Host values', async () => {
+    const app = guarded({ bindHost: '127.0.0.1' });
+    for (const origin of [
+      'http://localhost/api/ping',
+      'http://127.0.0.1/api/ping',
+      'http://127.0.0.2/api/ping',
+      'http://tenant.localhost/api/ping',
+    ]) {
+      expect((await app.request(origin)).status, origin).toBe(200);
+    }
+  });
+
+  it('does not allow a domain that only starts with 127. (no prefix bypass)', async () => {
+    const app = guarded({ bindHost: '127.0.0.1' });
+    expect((await app.request('http://127.0.0.1.nip.io/api/ping')).status).toBe(403);
+  });
+
+  it('allows hosts listed in VIS_ALLOWED_HOSTS, still blocks others', async () => {
+    const app = guarded({ bindHost: '127.0.0.1', allowedHosts: 'vis.internal,dev.box' });
+    expect((await app.request('http://vis.internal/api/ping')).status).toBe(200);
+    expect((await app.request('http://attacker.example/api/ping')).status).toBe(403);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('createApp host-guard wiring', () => {
+  const savedEnv = { ...process.env };
+  afterEach(() => {
+    process.env = { ...savedEnv };
+  });
+
+  it('guards requests when no auth token is configured', async () => {
+    const app = await createApp({ host: '127.0.0.1' });
+    const res = await app.request('http://attacker.example/api/sessions');
+    expect(res.status).toBe(403);
+    await expect(res.json()).resolves.toMatchObject({ code: 'FORBIDDEN_HOST' });
+  });
+
+  it('does not host-guard in token mode, so wildcard LAN access keeps working', async () => {
+    // Binding to a wildcard requires a token; the token (not the Host) is the
+    // access control, so a concrete LAN client must not be rejected as a
+    // forbidden host.
+    const app = await createApp({ authToken: 'secret-token', host: '0.0.0.0' });
+    const res = await app.request('http://192.168.1.10/api/sessions', {
+      headers: { authorization: 'Bearer secret-token' },
+    });
+    expect(res.status).not.toBe(403);
+  });
+});