undici vulnerable to cookie attribute injection via unsanitized domain and unparsed setCookie fields
GHSA-v3r7-h72x-cjcm · CVE-2026-16729
Published · Modified
Description
Impact
The setCookie function has two attribute injection paths. validateCookieDomain does not reject semicolons (validateCookiePath already does at 0x3B), so a domain value like example.com; SameSite=None lands verbatim as Domain=example.com; SameSite=None. The unparsed array's loop only checks each entry contains = and does not sanitize values, so an entry like X-Custom=val; HttpOnly lands unchanged, injecting HttpOnly without the caller setting cookie.httpOnly = true.
Applications that pass user-controlled input to these fields, typically multi-tenant or reverse-proxy servers that scope session cookies to a tenant-supplied domain, can have SameSite CSRF protections bypassed, Secure or HttpOnly forced or stripped, or the intended SameSite tier overridden.
Patches
Patched in undici v6.28.0, v7.29.0, and v8.9.0.
Workarounds
- Sanitize
domainvalues against the RFC 1034 letter-digit-hyphen set before passing tosetCookie. - Do not pass user-controlled data to the
unparsedfield.
References
- WEB https://github.com/nodejs/undici/security/advisories/GHSA-v3r7-h72x-cjcm
- ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-16729
- WEB https://github.com/nodejs/undici/commit/10d93fc332f2c8c161982dec3833201de29891b5
- WEB https://github.com/nodejs/undici/commit/3bf91ddb493e853957f3a58e155326a668ab8aef
- WEB https://github.com/nodejs/undici/commit/af7484043ee075a6f216da0ad77e1dac55199235
- WEB https://cna.openjsf.org/security-advisories.html
- PACKAGE https://github.com/nodejs/undici
- WEB https://github.com/nodejs/undici/releases/tag/v6.28.0
- WEB https://github.com/nodejs/undici/releases/tag/v7.29.0
- WEB https://github.com/nodejs/undici/releases/tag/v8.9.0
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