GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm

GHSA-v3r7-h72x-cjcm undici vulnerable to cookie attribute injection via unsanitized domain and unparsed setCookie fields

MEDIUM Published 2026-08-03 Modified 2026-08-03 Official page ↗
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