vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2023-45143: Node.js: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:M/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Oct 12, 2023
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

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.

Solution

gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-libs-nodejs
Title
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