REDHAT-BUG-2521779: High severity npm/fast-uri vulnerability

Published Aug 24, 2026
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Updated

fast-uri is a URI parser for Node.js. Its custom parser for bracketed IPv6 literals does not validate the complete IPv6 grammar, so invalid trailing text in an authority can be silently discarded and a malformed attacker-controlled host is turned into a different valid IPv6 destination. For example, a bracketed literal with invalid trailing characters is normalized to the unspecified address, which a Node HTTP client then connects to a local service over loopback, and other malformed literals collapse to private-range addresses. No error is set on the parsed result, so an application checking the error field cannot detect the rewrite. An application that normalizes untrusted URLs before outbound requests, redirects, proxy routing, or address-policy enforcement can be redirected to a local or private IPv6 target, giving a server-side request forgery and address-policy bypass primitive. The affected versions are 2.3.1 up to but not including 2.4.5, 3.0.0 up to but not including 3.1.6, and 4.0.0 up to but not including 4.1.3. The issue is fixed in 2.4.5, 3.1.6, and 4.1.3, which validate bracketed IP literals against the full grammar and mark malformed literals as authority errors. Users should upgrade to a patched version.

Affected Software

1 affected component
npm/fast-uri>=2.3.1<2.4.5, >=3.0.0<3.1.6, >=4.0.0<4.1.3

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

  1. Upgrade

    Upgrade fast-uri to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 2.4.5
  2. Upgrade

    Upgrade fast-uri to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 3.1.6
  3. Upgrade

    Upgrade fast-uri to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 4.1.3

Event History

Aug 24, 2026
Data Sourced
via Red Hat·10:11 AM
DescriptionSeverityAffected Software

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