# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-11525"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-06-17T17:31:03.163Z"
updatedAt: "2026-06-17T17:54:22.022Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:50.502Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-11525"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-11525.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-11525"
title: "undici vulnerable to Set-Cookie SameSite attribute downgrade via permissive substring matching"
summary: "Impact:\nWhen undici parses a Set-Cookie header, it accepts any SameSite attribute value that contains Strict, Lax, or None as a substring, rather than the case-insensitive exact match specified by RFC 6265. Non-spec values are silently mapped to one of the three standard tokens. For example, SameSite=NoneOfYourBusiness is parsed as None (the most permissive setting), and SameSite=StrictLax is parsed as Lax (a downgrade from Strict).\n\nAffected applications are those that consume Set-Cookie headers from server responses (for example via undici's fetch or proxy code paths) and then forward or rely on the parsed sameSite attribute. A malicious or non-compliant server can coerce the consumer's view of a cookie's SameSite policy to a weaker value, silently degrading the SameSite enforcement the cookie is supposed to provide.\n\nThis was introduced in undici 5.15.0 when the cookies feature was added.\n\nPatches:\nUpgrade to undici v6.26.0, v7.28.0 or v8.5.0.\n\nWorkarounds:\nAfter parsing a Set-Cookie header, validate that the resulting sameSite attribute is one of 'Strict', 'Lax', or 'None' (exact, case-insensitive) before forwarding or relying on it."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.26.0"},{"version":"6.26.0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"7.0.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"7.28.0"},{"version":"7.28.0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"8.0.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"8.5.0"},{"version":"8.5.0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"}],"vendor":"undici","product":"undici","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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