fast-uri vulnerable to server-side request forgery via malformed IPv6 normalization
### Impact `fast-uri` does not validate the complete RFC 3986 grammar for bracketed IPv6 literals, so a malformed literal with invalid trailing text is silently truncated to a different valid IPv6 address with no error reported. For example, `normalize('http://[::not-valid]/private')` returns `http://[::]/private`, and `[fc00::not-hex]` and `[fe80::not-hex]` collapse to `[fc00::]` and `[fe80::]`. An application that normalizes an untrusted URL before an outbound request, redirect, or host-policy check can be routed to a local or private address such as loopback (`::1`), unique-local, or link-local. Because `parse().error` is unset for these inputs, checking it does not protect the consumer. ### Patches Upgrade to `fast-uri` 2.4.5, 3.1.6, or 4.1.3. Malformed IPv6 literals are now rejected with a host error instead of being normalized to a valid address. ### Workarounds Reject untrusted URLs whose host is a bracketed IPv6 literal before passing them to `fast-uri`, or route outbound requests against an explicit allowlist of addresses rather than trusting the normalized host.
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Related CVEs.
| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2026-75975US | — | — | ||
fast-uri is a URI parser for Node.js. Its custom parser for bracketed IPv6 literals does not validate the complete IPv6 grammar, so invalid trailing text in an authority can be sil… | ||||
references
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- https://cna.openjsf.org/security-advisories.htmlWEB
- https://github.com/fastify/fast-uriPACKAGE
- https://github.com/fastify/fast-uri/commit/3728465caacef4b16bc84b7d14760f1c8fe41595WEB
- https://github.com/fastify/fast-uri/commit/607bfbe953f28a14c2e06ae64aff38c81ca2937fWEB
- https://github.com/fastify/fast-uri/commit/9161eded1ff55fad9d9714c6ad6c0f0283547799WEB
- https://github.com/fastify/fast-uri/releases/tag/v2.4.5WEB
- https://github.com/fastify/fast-uri/releases/tag/v3.1.6WEB
- https://github.com/fastify/fast-uri/releases/tag/v4.1.3WEB
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