GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm
GHSA-qw65-cvwx-89v3 fast-uri vulnerable to authority injection via an unvalidated port in serialize
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2026-84292
- 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-116
- Reviewed
- 2026-09-28
Affected packages
• npm fast-uri: < 2.4.6 → fixed in 2.4.6
• npm fast-uri: >= 3.0.0, < 3.1.7 → fixed in 3.1.7
• npm fast-uri: >= 4.0.0, < 4.1.4 → fixed in 4.1.4
Description
Impact
`fast-uri` serializes the `port` component of a URI without validating it. When recomposing the authority, `fast-uri` escapes the userinfo and host components but concatenates the port verbatim, so a `port` value that is not a sequence of digits can inject authority delimiters. For example, serializing a component whose `port` is `@127.0.0.1:8124` produces `http://trusted.example:@127.0.0.1:8124/app`, demoting the intended host to userinfo and pointing the authority at an attacker-controlled host. Both `fast-uri` and Node's `URL` read the result back as the attacker's host with no error, so re-validating the built URI does not catch it.
This affects applications that build URIs from parts and assign untrusted data to the `port` component (for example a fixed host from configuration and a port taken from user input or a service record). The same path is reachable through `serialize()`, `normalize()`, and `equal()` in their object forms. A `port` obtained from `parse()` is always digits and is not affected.
Patches
This vulnerability has been patched in fast-uri `4.1.4`, `3.1.7`, and `2.4.6`. `recomposeAuthority` now rejects any port that is not `*DIGIT` per RFC 3986. All users should upgrade.
Workarounds
If upgrading is not immediately possible, validate the `port` value against the RFC 3986 grammar (digits only) before passing a component to `serialize()`, `normalize()`, or `equal()`, and reject anything else, for example `if (!/^\d*$/.test(String(port))) throw new Error('invalid port')`.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2026-84292 fast-uri serializes the port component of a URI without validating it. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-116 Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output weakness
References
- https://github.com/fastify/fast-uri/security/advisories/GHSA-qw65-cvwx-89v3 web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-84292 advisory
- https://github.com/fastify/fast-uri/commit/820e8478dd7da3d09f187bfaf35d50b71f67b8b4 web
- https://cna.openjsf.org/security-advisories.html web
- https://github.com/fastify/fast-uri package
- https://github.com/fastify/fast-uri/releases/tag/v2.4.6 web
- https://github.com/fastify/fast-uri/releases/tag/v3.1.7 web
- https://github.com/fastify/fast-uri/releases/tag/v4.1.4 web