undici vulnerable to downstream response splitting via retry interceptor (undici undici)

CVE-2026-18540
LOW 3.7

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.31 % · percentile 24 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
openjs
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

undici's retry interceptor can append the body of a ranged retry response to bytes already delivered from an earlier partial response while still presenting the original response's status and headers. This happens when an upstream server delivers part of a body without a trustworthy resume checkpoint, for example a non-success response whose headers were already sent or a partial-content response with an unusable content range, then closes the connection and answers the resumed range request with more bytes. As a result the response body can be longer than the Content-Length that the application observes. An application that relays such a response to a downstream HTTP/1.1 peer without normalizing the framing can emit a body that exceeds the forwarded Content-Length, and the excess bytes can be interpreted as the start of a following response, which enables downstream response splitting or desynchronization. Exploitation requires an attacker-controlled upstream server and an application that forwards the response through a framing-sensitive path. This affects undici versions before 6.28.1, from 7.0.0 up to 7.29.1, and from 8.0.0 up to 8.10.2. Users should upgrade to undici 6.28.1, 7.29.1, or 8.10.2.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-444 — Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1LOW 3.7CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:Nopenjs
CVSS 3.1LOW 3.7CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NNVD · ce714d77-add3-4f53-aff5-83d477b104bb (Secondary)

Advisories

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
undici · undiciaffected 0 < 6.28.1 ; unaffected 6.28.1 ; affected 7.0.0 < 7.29.1 ; unaffected 7.29.1 ; affected 8.0.0 < 8.10.2 ; unaffected 8.10.2

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD