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HIGH7.5

GHSA-jqff-g426-hqxp

fast-uri vulnerable to host confusion via percent-encoded scheme normalization

Quick fix

GHSA-jqff-g426-hqxp — fast-uri: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

npm install fast-uri@2.4.5

Details

### Impact

`fast-uri` decodes percent-encoded characters in the scheme component with the legacy global `unescape()` and serializes the result back as raw characters, without re-escaping it or validating it as a scheme. A scheme that decodes to characters outside the RFC 3986 scheme grammar can therefore introduce structure the original input did not contain.

For example, `%2f%2fevil.example:/pwn` parses with no authority (`parse().host` is `undefined`), but `resolve()` and `normalize()` return `//evil.example:/pwn`, which reparses with host `evil.example`. The `%uXXXX` form (`%u002f%u002fevil.example:/pwn`) produces the same result, and a scheme containing `%0d%0a` reaches the output as a raw CR LF.

Applications that normalize or resolve untrusted URLs before a redirect check, host allowlist, or outbound request decision, especially ones that treat a missing authority as same-origin, can be steered to an attacker-chosen authority, and a normalized URI placed in a response header can carry an injected CR LF.

### Patches

Upgrade to `fast-uri` >= 4.1.3, or >= 3.1.6 in the v3.x release line, or >= 2.4.5 in the v2.x release line.

### Workarounds

None. Upgrade to the patched version.

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Affected packages

npm/fast-uri
Introduced in: 2.3.1Fixed in: 2.4.5
Fixnpm install fast-uri@2.4.5
npm/fast-uri
Introduced in: 3.0.0Fixed in: 3.1.6
Fixnpm install fast-uri@3.1.6
npm/fast-uri
Introduced in: 4.0.0Fixed in: 4.1.3
Fixnpm install fast-uri@4.1.3

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