GHSA-p68q-wchp-6fh7
fastify vulnerable to authentication bypass via malformed URLs reaching encapsulated not-found handlers
Quick fix
GHSA-p68q-wchp-6fh7 — fastify: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.
npm install fastify@5.12.2Details
### Impact
Fastify routes a malformed URL under one plugin prefix to the custom not-found handler of a different sibling plugin, invoking the handler registered last and skipping the `preHandler` declared in its `setNotFoundHandler()`. When the request method has no route in the main router, a malformed request target reaches Fastify's internal not-found router before URL decoding and is dispatched through a single shared handler pointer, regardless of prefix and without the normal request lifecycle. An unauthenticated request to a public prefix can therefore reach an authentication-protected not-found handler registered under a different prefix and receive its full response, breaking prefix encapsulation and bypassing the authentication hook. Applications whose private or tenant fallbacks return protected data from a not-found handler are affected.
### Patches
Patched in fastify 5.12.2. Malformed URLs are now routed through the configured `onBadUrl` and `onMaxParamLength` handlers so they fail closed before any application not-found handler runs, and the shared not-found handler pointer has been removed.
### Workarounds
Reject malformed request targets before they reach the application, for example at an upstream proxy or gateway, and do not rely on a not-found handler to serve protected data. A global `onRequest` authentication hook does not mitigate this, because the malformed-URL path skips it.
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References
- https://github.com/fastify/fastify/security/advisories/GHSA-p68q-wchp-6fh7[WEB]
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-76169[ADVISORY]
- https://github.com/fastify/fastify/commit/93c239a380f3f2778bb7565fcdf777e91cfe1fbc[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]