CVE-2023-45143

Undici's cookie header not cleared on cross-origin redirect in fetch

State
Published
Severity
3.9 Low
Published
Oct 12, 2023
Updated
Feb 13, 2025
Reserved
Oct 4, 2023

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Description

Undici is an HTTP/1.1 client written from scratch for Node.js. Prior to version 5.26.2, Undici already cleared Authorization headers on cross-origin redirects, but did not clear `Cookie` headers. By design, `cookie` headers are forbidden request headers, disallowing them to be set in RequestInit.headers in browser environments. Since undici handles headers more liberally than the spec, there was a disconnect from the assumptions the spec made, and undici's implementation of fetch. As such this may lead to accidental leakage of cookie to a third-party site or a malicious attacker who can control the redirection target (ie. an open redirector) to leak the cookie to the third party site. This was patched in version 5.26.2. There are no known workarounds.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.13.9 LowCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:LGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Affected Products

ProductVersions
undicinodejs
  • < 5.26.2Affected

References

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