GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm
GHSA-9phm-9p8f-hw5m Nitro has an Open Redirect via Protocol-Relative URL Bypass in Wildcard Route Rules
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2026-44372
- Ecosystem
- npm
- Packages
- nitro, nitropack
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-601
- Reviewed
- 2026-05-06
Affected packages
• npm nitro: < 3.0.260429-beta → fixed in 3.0.260429-beta
• npm nitropack: < 2.13.4 → fixed in 2.13.4
Description
A redirect route rule like:
```ts
routeRules: {
"/legacy/": { redirect: "/" }
}
```
is intended to rewrite paths within the same host. Before the patch, an attacker could turn the rewrite into a cross-host redirect by sliding an extra slash in after the rule prefix. Example exploit:
```
GET /legacy//evil.com
```
Nitro stripped `/legacy` from the matched pathname and joined the remainder against the rule's target. The remainder was `//evil.com`, which the join preserved verbatim, so Nitro responded with `Location: //evil.com`. Browsers resolve `//evil.com` as a protocol-relative URL against the current scheme, sending the user to `https://evil.com`.
Are you affected?
Users may be affected if all of the following are true:
1. Their project uses Nitro's `routeRules` with a `redirect` entry.
2. The target uses a `/` wildcard suffix to forward sub-paths (e.g. `redirect: "/"`, `redirect: "/new/"`, `proxy: { to: "http://upstream/" }`).
3. The `redirect` rule is _not_ handled natively at the CDN layer. The `vercel`, `netlify`, `cloudflare-pages`, and `edgeone` presets translate `routeRules.redirect` into platform config (`vercel.json`, `_redirects`, EdgeOne v3 config) and serve the redirect at the edge — those deployments bypass the Nitro runtime entirely and are not affected. Every other preset executes the redirect through the Nitro runtime and can be vulnerable.
Impact
Open redirect from any host serving Nitro with a wildcard `redirect` rule. The redirect target is fully attacker-controlled, the URL looks legitimate (it starts with the victim's domain), and the browser silently follows it.
Patched versions
Upgrade to one of:
• 2.13.4 or later (or upgrade lockfile with latest ufo 1.6.4+)
• 3.0.260429-beta or later (https://github.com/nitrojs/nitro/pull/4236)
The fix has two parts:
1. `ufo` is bumped to `^1.6.4` (unjs/ufo@5cd9e67), which collapses any run of leading slashes to a single `/` inside `withoutBase`. This covers the typical `"/scope/"` rule.
2. The Nitro runtime additionally collapses leading `//` before joining when the rule path itself is `/` (in rare case which case `withoutBase` is never called and the raw pathname flows straight into `joinURL("", …)`).
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2026-44372 Nitro is a next generation server toolkit. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-601 URL Redirection to Untrusted Site weakness
References
- https://github.com/nitrojs/nitro/security/advisories/GHSA-9phm-9p8f-hw5m web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-44372 advisory
- https://github.com/nitrojs/nitro/pull/4236 web
- https://github.com/unjs/ufo/commit/5cd9e676711af3f4e4b5398ddf6ca8d52c1c7e1f web
- https://github.com/nitrojs/nitro package
- https://github.com/nitrojs/nitro/releases/tag/v2.13.4 web
- https://github.com/nitrojs/nitro/releases/tag/v3.0.260429-beta web