CVE-2022-35949CWE-918

`undici.request` vulnerable to SSRF using absolute URL on `pathname`

Medium · published August 12, 2022

CVSS v3.1
5.3
EPSS
2%
Percentile
79.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

undici is an HTTP/1.1 client, written from scratch for Node.js.`undici` is vulnerable to SSRF (Server-side Request Forgery) when an application takes in **user input** into the `path/pathname` option of `undici.request`. If a user specifies a URL such as `http://127.0.0.1` or `//127.0.0.1` ```js const undici = require("undici") undici.request({origin: "http://example.com", pathname: "//127.0.0.1"}) ``` Instead of processing the request as `http://example.org//127.0.0.1` (or `http://example.org/http://127.0.0.1` when `http://127.0.0.1 is used`), it actually processes the request as `http://127.0.0.1/` and sends it to `http://127.0.0.1`. If a developer passes in user input into `path` parameter of `undici.request`, it can result in an _SSRF_ as they will assume that the hostname cannot change, when in actual fact it can change because the specified path parameter is combined with the base URL. This issue was fixed in `[email protected]`. The best workaround is to validate user input before passing it to the `undici.request` call.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01871 · 79.2th percentile
Weakness
CWE-918 · Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
Published
2022-08-12T00:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 12 AUG 00:00Z
    `undici.request` vulnerable to SSRF using absolute URL on `pathname`
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