CVE-2026-16221
CVE.org · Published
- Record status
- Published
- Identifier year (not publication year)
- 2026
- Source publication
- Source updated
- Imported by cveboard
- Source snapshot
- cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·
CNA source text (English)
fast-uri vulnerable to host confusion via literal backslash authority delimiter
Impact: fast-uri versions from 2.3.1 through 4.1.0 (including the 3.x line up to 3.1.3 and the 2.x line up to 2.4.2) do not treat a literal backslash character (U+005C) as an authority delimiter. Node's native WHATWG URL parser, used by fetch, undici, and Node's http and https clients, normalizes the backslash to a forward slash for special schemes such as http, https, ws, wss, ftp, and file. As a result, the two parsers extract different hosts from the same input string. Applications that use fast-uri to enforce host-based policy such as allowlists, denylists, loopback or SSRF filtering, redirect validation, or outbound proxy routing before passing the same URL into Node's URL or fetch consumers can be steered to an unintended destination, including cloud metadata endpoints, loopback, or internal hosts. Patches: upgrade to fast-uri 4.1.1, 3.1.4, or 2.4.3. Workarounds: none.
Scoped product and version facts
Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.
fast-uri
- Vendor
- fast-uri
- Product
- fast-uri
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
unaffected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.3.1 | affected | semver | 2.4.3 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 2.4.3 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 3.0.0 | affected | semver | 3.1.4 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 3.1.4 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 4.0.0 | affected | semver | 4.1.1 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 4.1.1 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |