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DOS and Open Redirect with user input

High
mcollina published GHSA-pgh6-m65r-2rhq Oct 11, 2021

Package

npm fastify-static (npm)

Affected versions

>= 4.2.4 < 4.4.1

Patched versions

>= 4.4.1

Description

Impact

A redirect vulnerability in the fastify-static module allows remote attackers to redirect Mozilla Firefox users to arbitrary websites via a double slash // followed by a domain: http://localhost:3000//a//youtube.com/%2e%2e%2f%2e%2e.

A DOS vulnerability is possible if the URL contains invalid characters curl --path-as-is "http://localhost:3000//^/.."

The issue shows up on all the fastify-static applications that set redirect: true option. By default, it is false.

Patches

The issue has been patched in fastify-static@4.4.1

Workarounds

If updating is not an option, you can sanitize the input URLs using the rewriteUrl server option.

References

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Severity

High

CVE ID

CVE-2021-22964