GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm
GHSA-f65p-4m7j-42xc fast-uri vulnerable to server-side request forgery via malformed IPv6 normalization
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2026-75975
- Ecosystem
- npm
- Packages
- fast-uri
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20, CWE-918
- Reviewed
- 2026-09-02
Affected packages
• npm fast-uri: >= 2.3.1, < 2.4.5 → fixed in 2.4.5
• npm fast-uri: >= 3.0.0, < 3.1.6 → fixed in 3.1.6
• npm fast-uri: >= 4.0.0, < 4.1.3 → fixed in 4.1.3
Description
Impact
`fast-uri` does not validate the complete RFC 3986 grammar for bracketed IPv6 literals, so a malformed literal with invalid trailing text is silently truncated to a different valid IPv6 address with no error reported. For example, `normalize('http://[::not-valid]/private')` returns `http://[::]/private`, and `[fc00::not-hex]` and `[fe80::not-hex]` collapse to `[fc00::]` and `[fe80::]`. An application that normalizes an untrusted URL before an outbound request, redirect, or host-policy check can be routed to a local or private address such as loopback (`::1`), unique-local, or link-local. Because `parse().error` is unset for these inputs, checking it does not protect the consumer.
Patches
Upgrade to `fast-uri` 2.4.5, 3.1.6, or 4.1.3. Malformed IPv6 literals are now rejected with a host error instead of being normalized to a valid address.
Workarounds
Reject untrusted URLs whose host is a bracketed IPv6 literal before passing them to `fast-uri`, or route outbound requests against an explicit allowlist of addresses rather than trusting the normalized host.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2026-75975 fast-uri is a URI parser for Node.js. vulnerability
References
- https://github.com/fastify/fast-uri/security/advisories/GHSA-f65p-4m7j-42xc web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-75975 advisory
- https://github.com/fastify/fast-uri/commit/3728465caacef4b16bc84b7d14760f1c8fe41595 web
- https://github.com/fastify/fast-uri/commit/607bfbe953f28a14c2e06ae64aff38c81ca2937f web
- https://github.com/fastify/fast-uri/commit/9161eded1ff55fad9d9714c6ad6c0f0283547799 web
- https://cna.openjsf.org/security-advisories.html web
- https://github.com/fastify/fast-uri package
- https://github.com/fastify/fast-uri/releases/tag/v2.4.5 web
- https://github.com/fastify/fast-uri/releases/tag/v3.1.6 web
- https://github.com/fastify/fast-uri/releases/tag/v4.1.3 web