GHSA-v39h-62p7-jpjcHighCVSS 7.5

fast-uri vulnerable to host confusion via percent-encoded authority delimiters

Published
May 8, 2026
Last Modified
August 13, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

Impact

fast-uri v3.1.1 and earlier decodes percent-encoded authority delimiters (%40 as @, %3A as :) inside the host component and serializes them back as raw characters. This changes the URI structure, turning a hostname into userinfo plus a different host.

For example, http://trusted.com%40evil.com/ normalizes to http://[email protected]/, which reparses as host evil.com with userinfo trusted.com.

Applications that normalize untrusted URLs before host allowlist checks, redirect validation, or outbound request routing can be steered to a different authority than the original URL appeared to contain.

Patches

Upgrade to fast-uri >= 3.1.2, or if you are in the v2.x release line, v2.4.1

Workarounds

None. Upgrade to the patched version.

🎯 Affected products2

  • npm/fast-uri:>= 3.0.0, <= 3.1.1
  • npm/fast-uri:<= 2.4.0

🔗 References (40)