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HIGH7.5

GHSA-qw65-cvwx-89v3

fast-uri vulnerable to authority injection via an unvalidated port in serialize

Quick fix

GHSA-qw65-cvwx-89v3 — fast-uri: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

npm install fast-uri@2.4.6

Details

### Impact

`fast-uri` serializes the `port` component of a URI without validating it. When recomposing the authority, `fast-uri` escapes the userinfo and host components but concatenates the port verbatim, so a `port` value that is not a sequence of digits can inject authority delimiters. For example, serializing a component whose `port` is `@127.0.0.1:8124` produces `http://trusted.example:@127.0.0.1:8124/app`, demoting the intended host to userinfo and pointing the authority at an attacker-controlled host. Both `fast-uri` and Node's `URL` read the result back as the attacker's host with no error, so re-validating the built URI does not catch it.

This affects applications that build URIs from parts and assign untrusted data to the `port` component (for example a fixed host from configuration and a port taken from user input or a service record). The same path is reachable through `serialize()`, `normalize()`, and `equal()` in their object forms. A `port` obtained from `parse()` is always digits and is not affected.

### Patches

This vulnerability has been patched in fast-uri `4.1.4`, `3.1.7`, and `2.4.6`. `recomposeAuthority` now rejects any port that is not `*DIGIT` per RFC 3986. All users should upgrade.

### Workarounds

If upgrading is not immediately possible, validate the `port` value against the RFC 3986 grammar (digits only) before passing a component to `serialize()`, `normalize()`, or `equal()`, and reject anything else, for example `if (!/^\d*$/.test(String(port))) throw new Error('invalid port')`.

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Affected packages

npm/fast-uri
Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 2.4.6
Fixnpm install fast-uri@2.4.6
npm/fast-uri
Introduced in: 3.0.0Fixed in: 3.1.7
Fixnpm install fast-uri@3.1.7
npm/fast-uri
Introduced in: 4.0.0Fixed in: 4.1.4
Fixnpm install fast-uri@4.1.4

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