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GHSA-5pq2-9x2x-5p6w Hono Vulnerable to Cookie Attribute Injection via Unsanitized domain and path in setCookie()
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2026-29086
- Ecosystem
- npm
- Packages
- hono
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-1113, CWE-113
- Reviewed
- 2026-03-04
Affected packages
• npm hono: < 4.12.4 → fixed in 4.12.4
Description
Summary
The `setCookie()` utility did not validate semicolons (`;`), carriage returns (`\r`), or newline characters (`\n`) in the `domain` and `path` options when constructing the `Set-Cookie` header.
Because cookie attributes are delimited by semicolons, this could allow injection of additional cookie attributes if untrusted input was passed into these fields.
Details
`setCookie()` builds the `Set-Cookie` header by concatenating option values. While the cookie value itself is URL-encoded, the `domain` and `path` options were previously interpolated without rejecting unsafe characters.
Including `;`, `\r`, or `\n` in these fields could result in unintended additional attributes (such as `SameSite`, `Secure`, `Domain`, or `Path`) being appended to the cookie header.
Modern runtimes prevent full header injection via CRLF, so this issue is limited to attribute-level manipulation within a single `Set-Cookie` header.
The issue has been fixed by rejecting these characters in the `domain` and `path` options.
Impact
An attacker may be able to manipulate cookie attributes if an application passes user-controlled input directly into the `domain` or `path` options of `setCookie()`.
This could affect cookie scoping or security attributes depending on browser behavior. Exploitation requires application-level misuse of cookie options.
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Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2026-29086 Hono is a Web application framework that provides support for any JavaScript runtime. vulnerability