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GHSA-8xcm-r25x-g524

undici vulnerable to downstream response desynchronization via retry interceptor

Quick fix

GHSA-8xcm-r25x-g524 — undici: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

npm install undici@6.28.0

Details

### Impact

Undici's `interceptors.retry()` can deliver a response whose body length does not match the `Content-Length` header exposed to the application after a retry or resume of a partial response. Applications that use `interceptors.retry()` and forward upstream response headers and bodies downstream, for example proxy or gateway applications, may emit an invalid HTTP response with a stale `Content-Length` header. This can lead to downstream response desynchronization, connection hangs, or response corruption in clients or intermediaries that rely on the forwarded framing metadata.

A malicious or faulty upstream can respond to a range request with a `206 Partial Content` response such as:

```http Content-Range: bytes 0-99/300 Content-Length: 300 ```

and then send only 99 bytes before closing the socket. `interceptors.retry()` can then retry with `Range: bytes=99-99`, receive the final byte, and deliver a 100-byte body to the application while the response headers still contain `Content-Length: 300` from the first response.

The bug requires `interceptors.retry()` to be enabled, an upstream that returns a partial response with a mismatched framing header, and a downstream forwarder that does not remove or recalculate `Content-Length`.

### Patches

Patched in undici v6.28.0, v7.29.0, and v8.9.0. Users should upgrade to one of these versions or later.

### Workarounds

- Disable `interceptors.retry()` for untrusted upstreams. - Remove or recalculate `Content-Length` before forwarding a response body assembled or transformed by Undici.

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Affected packages

npm / undici
Introduced in: 0 Fixed in: 6.28.0
Fix npm install undici@6.28.0
npm / undici
Introduced in: 7.0.0 Fixed in: 7.29.0
Fix npm install undici@7.29.0
npm / undici
Introduced in: 8.0.0 Fixed in: 8.9.0
Fix npm install undici@8.9.0

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