diff --git a/common/config_models.py b/common/config_models.py
index fb0db10e..f4c6f64b 100644
--- a/common/config_models.py
+++ b/common/config_models.py
@@ -53,6 +53,18 @@ class NetworkConfig(BaseConfigModel):
             "Turn on this option if you are ONLY connecting from localhost."
         ),
     )
+    allowed_origins: Optional[List[str]] = Field(
+        ["*"],
+        description=(
+            'Origins allowed to call the API from a browser (default: ["*"]).\n'
+            "This is a CORS allowlist, not an auth mechanism: it only governs which\n"
+            "web pages a browser will let read this API's responses.\n"
+            'The default "*" means any site open in your browser can send requests to\n'
+            "this instance, which matters most when disable_auth is on. Restrict this to\n"
+            'your own frontends (e.g. ["http://localhost:8000"]) to close that off, or\n'
+            "use an empty list [] to block all browser (cross-origin) callers."
+        ),
+    )
     disable_fetch_requests: Optional[bool] = Field(
         False,
         description=(
diff --git a/config_sample.yml b/config_sample.yml
index 7b16b06b..6710e658 100644
--- a/config_sample.yml
+++ b/config_sample.yml
@@ -20,6 +20,13 @@ network:
   # Turn on this option if you are ONLY connecting from localhost.
   disable_auth: false
 
+  # Origins allowed to call the API from a browser (default: ["*"]).
+  # This is a CORS allowlist, not authentication: "*" lets any site open in your
+  # browser send requests to this instance, which matters most when disable_auth
+  # is on. Restrict to your own frontends (e.g. ["http://localhost:8000"]) or use
+  # an empty list [] to block all browser (cross-origin) callers.
+  allowed_origins: ["*"]
+
   # Disable fetching external content in response to requests,such as images from URLs.
   disable_fetch_requests: false
 
diff --git a/endpoints/server.py b/endpoints/server.py
index b3ed1e4a..95478881 100644
--- a/endpoints/server.py
+++ b/endpoints/server.py
@@ -29,11 +29,14 @@ def setup_app(host: Optional[str] = None, port: Optional[int] = None):
     )
     app.add_exception_handler(ContextLengthHTTPException, context_length_exception_handler)
 
-    # ALlow CORS requests
+    # Allow CORS requests from the configured origins.
+    # allow_credentials stays False: TabbyAPI authenticates with a header/query
+    # token rather than cookies, so credentialed CORS buys nothing and would make
+    # Starlette reflect an arbitrary requesting origin back instead of sending "*".
     app.add_middleware(
         CORSMiddleware,
-        allow_origins=["*"],
-        allow_credentials=True,
+        allow_origins=config.network.allowed_origins,
+        allow_credentials=False,
         allow_methods=["*"],
         allow_headers=["*"],
     )