CVE-2026-9697

HIGHPre-NVD 7.47.4
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

This high-severity CVE scores 7.4 under a secondary CVSS source (NVD's own analysis pending). EPSS exploit probability: 0.5%, top 62% of all CVEs by exploit prediction. GitHub Security Advisory data not yet ingested — confidence will rise once GHSA publishes (typical lag: hours to days for open-source ecosystem CVEs; never for infrastructure-only CVEs).

Triggered by: NVD CVSS baseline
Sources: epss, secondary
Trending — Patch released this week
7.4EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixSerious severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet.
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0%CVSS: 7.4Exploit: None knownExposed: 0

A fix is available — apply it.

Impact: undici's ProxyAgent silently drops the requestTls option when configured with a SOCKS5 proxy URI (socks5:// or socks://). The target HTTPS connection through the SOCKS5 tunnel falls back to Node's default trust store, ignoring user-configured ca, cert, key, rejectUnauthorized, and servername settings.

Applications that pin to an internal or corporate CA via requestTls.ca will, when their proxy URI is SOCKS5, get the default Mozilla CA bundle as the trust anchor instead. Any cert signed by any publicly-trusted CA for the target hostname is accepted, breaking the intended pin and enabling MITM read and tamper of the HTTPS exchange.

Affected applications are those that use undici's ProxyAgent (or Socks5ProxyAgent directly) with SOCKS5 AND rely on requestTls for TLS scope restriction. The bug was introduced in undici 7.23.0 when SOCKS5 support was added.

Patches: Upgrade to undici v7.28.0 or v8.5.0.

Workarounds: No workaround is available within the SOCKS5 path. If a SOCKS5 proxy with TLS scope restriction is required and an upgrade is not yet possible, route the traffic through an HTTP-proxy ProxyAgent instead, where requestTls is honored correctly.

CVSS v3
7.4
EG Score
7.4(medium)
EG Risk
33(Track)
EG Risk 33/100SSVC: Track

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity74% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence.
EPSS PROB
0%
EPSS %ILE
38%
KEV
Not listed

Published

June 17, 2026

Last Modified

August 20, 2026

Advisory Details (2)

Auto-updated Jun 17, 2026
Patch available. Sources: github.
github Patch Available

undici vulnerable to TLS certificate validation bypass via dropped requestTls in SOCKS5 ProxyAgent · Advisory · nodejs/undici · GitHub

https://github.com/nodejs/undici/security/advisories/GHSA-vmh5-mc38-953g
generic

Security Advisories | OpenJS Foundation CVE Numbering Authority

https://cna.openjsf.org/security-advisories.html

Patch Availability(18)

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(3 across 3 ecosystems)
Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFixed inDependents
node-undici7.15.0+dfsg+~cs3.2.0-1 ... 8.9.0+dfsg+~cs3.2.0-1 (15 versions)
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFixed inDependents
node-undici7.15.0+dfsg+~cs3.2.0-1 ... 7.3.0+dfsg1+~cs24.12.11-2 (11 versions)8.5.0+dfsg+~cs3.2.0-1
npm(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFixed inDependents
undici8.5.0

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 32× in last 7d / 113× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-9697?
CVE-2026-9697 is a high vulnerability published on June 17, 2026. Impact: undici's ProxyAgent silently drops the requestTls option when configured with a SOCKS5 proxy URI (socks5:// or socks://). The target HTTPS connection through the SOCKS5 tunnel falls back to Node's default trust store, ignoring user-configured ca, cert, key, rejectUnauthorized, and…
When was CVE-2026-9697 disclosed?
CVE-2026-9697 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on June 17, 2026, with the most recent update on August 20, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-9697 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-9697 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, which ranks it in the top 61.8% of all scored CVEs.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-9697?
CVE-2026-9697 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.4 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-9697?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-9697, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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