GHSA-hwr6-493r-vm6h
fastify vulnerable to request validation bypass via skipped boolean false schemas
Quick fix
GHSA-hwr6-493r-vm6h — fastify: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.
npm install fastify@5.12.2Details
### Impact
Fastify decided whether to validate a request part by checking its schema for JavaScript truthiness. JSON Schema Draft 7 defines the boolean `false` as a valid schema that rejects every instance, but because `false` is falsy, a route that set `body`, `querystring`, `params`, or `headers` to `false` had that part left uncompiled: no validator was attached and the request reached the handler. An application that used `false` as a deny-all schema to make a route unreachable was therefore fully bypassed, and an unauthenticated remote client could reach the handler with any input. The same applied to the documented `query` alias for `querystring`. This is a complete bypass rather than a weak-schema issue, since `false` is the strongest JSON Schema assertion and must always fail.
### Patches
Request-part schemas are now selected by an explicit presence check rather than truthiness, so a boolean `false` (or `true`) schema is compiled and enforced, including through the `query` alias. Patched in fastify `5.12.2`. The fix is also included in the `6.0.0` release.
### Workarounds
If upgrading is not immediately possible, express a deny-all request schema with an always-failing object schema instead of the boolean `false` (for example `{ "not": {} }`), or reject the request in an `onRequest` hook.
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References
- https://github.com/fastify/fastify/security/advisories/GHSA-hwr6-493r-vm6h[WEB]
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-84469[ADVISORY]
- https://github.com/fastify/fastify/commit/7de6e81697778f9f41bd327a3b1c5c9a0d9637b4[WEB]
- https://cna.openjsf.org/security-advisories.html[WEB]
- https://github.com/fastify/fastify[PACKAGE]
- https://github.com/fastify/fastify/releases/tag/v5.12.2[WEB]