GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm

GHSA-xgm2-5f3f-mvvc Hono: API Gateway v1 adapter can drop a distinct repeated request header value during de-duplication

MEDIUM Published 2026-07-21 Modified 2026-07-21 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2026-59897
Ecosystem
npm
Packages
hono
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-348
Reviewed
2026-07-21

Affected packages

• npm hono: >= 4.3.3, < 4.12.27 → fixed in 4.12.27

Description

Summary The AWS API Gateway v1 adapter can drop a distinct repeated request header value. When a header appears multiple times, the adapter de-duplicates values using a substring comparison instead of an exact match, so a value that is a substring of another value of the same header is omitted (for example, `203.0.113.1` is dropped when another value is `203.0.113.10`). Details A repeated request header carries an ordered list of values. Middleware or application logic that depends on the complete list — such as IP restriction that walks the `X-Forwarded-For` chain, rate limiting, audit logging, or proxy-chain validation — can therefore receive incomplete data that differs from what the client actually sent. This issue arises on deployments using the AWS API Gateway v1 adapter (the same pattern also affects the VPC Lattice adapter), for requests that contain the same header more than once. Impact An attacker can craft repeated header values so that one value is omitted before the application sees the request. Where a security or routing decision relies on the full chain, this can alter that decision. This affects applications deployed through Hono's AWS API Gateway v1 (or VPC Lattice) adapter that rely on the complete set of repeated request header values.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2026-59897 Hono is a Web application framework that provides support for any JavaScript runtime. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-348 Use of Less Trusted Source weakness

References