CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-29041
6.1 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2024-03-25
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.1 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-1286, CWE-601
Description
Express.js minimalist web framework for node. Versions of Express.js prior to 4.19.0 and all pre-release alpha and beta versions of 5.0 are affected by an open redirect vulnerability using malformed URLs. When a user of Express performs a redirect using a user-provided URL Express performs an encode using `encodeurl` on the contents before passing it to the `location` header. This can cause malformed URLs to be evaluated in unexpected ways by common redirect allow list implementations in Express applications, leading to an Open Redirect via bypass of a properly implemented allow list. The main method impacted is `res.location()` but this is also called from within `res.redirect()`. The vulnerability is fixed in 4.19.2 and 5.0.0-beta.3.
Affected configurations
• openjsf express (< 4.19.2)
• openjsf express 5.0.0
Related
References
- https://expressjs.com/en/4x/api.html#res.location Technical Description
- https://github.com/expressjs/express/commit/0867302ddbde0e9463d0564fea5861feb708c2dd Patch
- https://github.com/expressjs/express/commit/0b746953c4bd8e377123527db11f9cd866e39f94 Patch
- https://github.com/expressjs/express/pull/5539 Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/expressjs/express/security/advisories/GHSA-rv95-896h-c2vc Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/koajs/koa/issues/1800 Issue Tracking
- https://expressjs.com/en/4x/api.html#res.location Technical Description
- https://github.com/expressjs/express/commit/0867302ddbde0e9463d0564fea5861feb708c2dd Patch
- https://github.com/expressjs/express/commit/0b746953c4bd8e377123527db11f9cd866e39f94 Patch
- https://github.com/expressjs/express/pull/5539 Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/expressjs/express/security/advisories/GHSA-rv95-896h-c2vc Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/koajs/koa/issues/1800 Issue Tracking