# 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-2026-9679"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-06-17T16:56:18.579Z"
updatedAt: "2026-06-23T16:12:38.765Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z"
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-2026-9679"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-9679.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-9679"
title: "undici vulnerable to HTTP header injection via Set-Cookie percent-decoding"
summary: "Impact:\nundici's cookie parser in parseSetCookie percent-decodes cookie values via qsUnescape, turning encoded sequences like %0D%0A, %00, %3B, and %3D into their literal byte equivalents. RFC 6265 §5.4 does not specify any decoding and browsers do not decode either.\n\nApplications that parse a Set-Cookie header and then forward the parsed value into a response header (proxies, middleware, SSR frameworks) become vulnerable to HTTP response header injection: an attacker-controlled upstream can inject arbitrary Set-Cookie, Location, or Cache-Control headers into the application's downstream response, enabling session fixation, open redirect, or cache poisoning.\n\nAffected applications are those that use undici's cookie parsing (parseSetCookie, parseCookie, getSetCookies) and forward the parsed cookie value into a response header.\n\nThis was introduced in undici 7.0.0 via PR #3789.\n\nPatches:\nUpgrade to undici v6.26.0, v7.28.0 or v8.5.0.\n\nWorkarounds:\nIf upgrade is not immediately possible, do not forward values returned by parseSetCookie/parseCookie/getSetCookies directly into response headers; sanitize the value first to strip or reject CR, LF, NUL, ;, and = bytes."
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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