CVE-2026-18248

@fastify/aws-lambda vulnerable to Lambda event spoofing via client-controlled x-apigateway-event header

State
Published
Severity
9.1 Critical
Published
Aug 3, 2026
Updated
Aug 3, 2026
Reserved
Jul 29, 2026

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Description

@fastify/aws-lambda version 6.4.0 decorates each Fastify request with request.awsLambda.event and request.awsLambda.context, values that applications are documented to use for authorization decisions such as reading API Gateway authorizer claims. In the default configuration, the getter that populates this decoration reads the client-controlled x-apigateway-event and x-apigateway-context HTTP headers before falling back to the trusted internal request token, and those reserved headers are not stripped from the incoming event. An unauthenticated attacker who can set a single HTTP header can therefore forge the entire Lambda proxy event, including the authorizer context, and override the genuine one. This results in a full authentication and authorization bypass and privilege escalation for any application that trusts request.awsLambda.event for identity or access control. Only version 6.4.0 is affected. Patches: upgrade to @fastify/aws-lambda 6.4.1, which resolves the decoration only through the internal per-invocation token and strips the reserved headers before the request is processed.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.19.1 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Nopenjs

Weaknesses

  • CWE-345 Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity

Affected Products

ProductVersions
@fastify/aws-lambda@fastify/aws-lambda
  • 6.4.0 to before 6.4.1Affected
  • 6.4.1Not affected

References

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