GHSA-wr66-vrwm-5g5xMediumCVSS 5.9

Denial of Service Vulnerability in next.js

Published
January 28, 2022
Last Modified
December 20, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

Impact

Vulnerable code could allow a bad actor to trigger a denial of service attack for anyone running a Next.js app at version >= 12.0.0, and using i18n functionality.

  • Affected: All of the following must be true to be affected by this CVE
    • Next.js versions above v12.0.0
    • Using next start or a custom server
    • Using the built-in i18n support
  • Not affected:
    • Deployments on Vercel (vercel.com) are not affected along with similar environments where invalid requests are filtered before reaching Next.js.

Patches

A patch has been released, [email protected], that mitigates this issue. We recommend all affected users upgrade as soon as possible.

Workarounds

We recommend upgrading whether you can reproduce or not although you can ensure /${locale}/_next/ is blocked from reaching the Next.js instance until you upgrade.

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:

🎯 Affected products1

  • npm/next:>= 12.0.0, < 12.0.9

🔗 References (5)