GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm
GHSA-v3r7-h72x-cjcm undici vulnerable to cookie attribute injection via unsanitized domain and unparsed setCookie fields
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2026-16729
- Ecosystem
- npm
- Packages
- undici
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-74
- Reviewed
- 2026-08-03
Affected packages
• npm undici: < 6.28.0 → fixed in 6.28.0
• npm undici: >= 7.0.0, < 7.29.0 → fixed in 7.29.0
• npm undici: >= 8.0.0, < 8.9.0 → fixed in 8.9.0
Description
Impact
The `setCookie` function has two attribute injection paths. `validateCookieDomain` does not reject semicolons (`validateCookiePath` already does at 0x3B), so a `domain` value like `example.com; SameSite=None` lands verbatim as `Domain=example.com; SameSite=None`. The `unparsed` array's loop only checks each entry contains `=` and does not sanitize values, so an entry like `X-Custom=val; HttpOnly` lands unchanged, injecting `HttpOnly` without the caller setting `cookie.httpOnly = true`.
Applications that pass user-controlled input to these fields, typically multi-tenant or reverse-proxy servers that scope session cookies to a tenant-supplied domain, can have SameSite CSRF protections bypassed, `Secure` or `HttpOnly` forced or stripped, or the intended SameSite tier overridden.
Patches
Patched in undici v6.28.0, v7.29.0, and v8.9.0.
Workarounds
• Sanitize `domain` values against the RFC 1034 letter-digit-hyphen set before passing to `setCookie`.
• Do not pass user-controlled data to the `unparsed` field.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2026-16729 undici's setCookie function does not fully sanitize cookie attributes. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-74 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component weakness
References
- https://github.com/nodejs/undici/security/advisories/GHSA-v3r7-h72x-cjcm web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-16729 advisory
- https://github.com/nodejs/undici/commit/10d93fc332f2c8c161982dec3833201de29891b5 web
- https://github.com/nodejs/undici/commit/3bf91ddb493e853957f3a58e155326a668ab8aef web
- https://github.com/nodejs/undici/commit/af7484043ee075a6f216da0ad77e1dac55199235 web
- https://cna.openjsf.org/security-advisories.html web
- https://github.com/nodejs/undici package
- https://github.com/nodejs/undici/releases/tag/v6.28.0 web
- https://github.com/nodejs/undici/releases/tag/v7.29.0 web
- https://github.com/nodejs/undici/releases/tag/v8.9.0 web