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GHSA-x426-x7cc-3fpc

@hapi/wreck: Sensitive credential headers leak across cross-port and cross-scheme redirects

Details

### Impact Wreck strips credential headers (Authorization, Cookie, Proxy-Authorization) before following a cross-origin redirect, but the origin check compares hostnames only and ignores scheme and port. As a result, credentials are forwarded intact across same-host port changes and HTTPS-to-HTTP downgrades, allowing a co-tenant on an adjacent port or a network-position attacker capable of forging a redirect to capture bearer tokens, session cookies, and proxy credentials and impersonate the victim against the upstream service. The fix replaces the hostname comparison with a full-origin comparison (scheme, host, and port), aligning the behavior with the WHATWG Fetch same-origin definition used by browsers.

### Patches Upgrade to >= 18.1.2.

### Workarounds - Set `redirects: 0` (default) and handle redirects manually with a strict origin check. - Use the `beforeRedirect` hook to inspect the redirect target and abort or strip sensitive headers before the follow-on request.

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Affected packages

npm / @hapi/wreck
Introduced in: 0 Fixed in: 18.1.2
Fix npm install @hapi/wreck@18.1.2

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