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Nodejs ‘undici’ vulnerable to CRLF Injection via Content-Type

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Aug 9, 2022 in nodejs/undici • Updated Feb 3, 2023

Package

npm undici (npm)

Affected versions

<= 5.8.1

Patched versions

5.8.2

Description

Impact

=< undici@5.8.0 users are vulnerable to CRLF Injection on headers when using unsanitized input as request headers, more specifically, inside the content-type header.

Example:

import { request } from 'undici'

const unsanitizedContentTypeInput =  'application/json\r\n\r\nGET /foo2 HTTP/1.1'

await request('http://localhost:3000, {
    method: 'GET',
    headers: {
      'content-type': unsanitizedContentTypeInput
    },
})

The above snippet will perform two requests in a single request API call:

  1. http://localhost:3000/
  2. http://localhost:3000/foo2

Patches

This issue was patched in Undici v5.8.1

Workarounds

Sanitize input when sending content-type headers using user input.

For more information

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References

@mcollina mcollina published to nodejs/undici Aug 9, 2022
Published by the National Vulnerability Database Aug 15, 2022
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Aug 18, 2022
Reviewed Aug 18, 2022
Last updated Feb 3, 2023

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

EPSS score

0.079%
(35th percentile)

CVE ID

CVE-2022-35948

GHSA ID

GHSA-f772-66g8-q5h3

Source code

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