GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm
GHSA-492v-c6pp-mqqv Next.js has a Middleware / Proxy bypass through dynamic route parameter injection
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2026-44574
- Ecosystem
- npm
- Packages
- next
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-288
- Reviewed
- 2026-05-11
Affected packages
• npm next: >= 15.4.0, < 15.5.16 → fixed in 15.5.16
• npm next: >= 16.0.0, < 16.2.5 → fixed in 16.2.5
Description
Impact
Applications that rely on middleware to protect dynamic routes can be vulnerable to authorization bypass. In affected deployments, specially crafted query parameters can alter the dynamic route value seen by the page while leaving the visible path unchanged, which can allow protected content to be rendered without passing the expected middleware check.
Fix
We now only honor internal route-parameter normalization in trusted routing flows and ignore externally supplied parameter encodings that should never have been accepted from ordinary requests.
Workarounds
If you cannot upgrade immediately, enforce authorization in route or page logic instead of relying solely on middleware path matching.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2026-44574 Next.js is a React framework for building full-stack web applications. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-288 Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel weakness