Severity
Details
- CVSS score
- 8.2
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- CWE ID
Overview
About vulnerability
Summary
In the Astro Node adapter, a request whose Host header contains a malformed port (for example example.com:65536 or example.com:8080:8080) produced an invalid request URL. The fallback intended to recover from an unparseable URL reused the same malformed host, so it failed again and raised an uncaught TypeError: Invalid URL while the request was being built, before any route ran.
Impact
The effect depends on the adapter configuration:
- Default configuration (
standalone): the request returns500 Internal Server Errorand the server continues running. - With the opt-in
staticHeaders: trueoption: the throw reaches a synchronous HTTP handler that does not catch it, becoming anuncaughtExceptionthat terminates the process.
This is an availability-only issue. It does not expose data or allow code execution. Triggering it requires sending a hand-crafted Host header, and many proxies and CDNs reject malformed hosts before they reach the origin.
Affected versions
@astrojs/node <= 11.1.2.
Patches
Fixed in @astrojs/node 11.1.3. When the incoming host cannot be parsed, the request URL now degrades to a host the server controls, so the request is handled instead of throwing. Hosts carrying more than a single hostname:port pair are also rejected during host validation.
Workarounds
Upgrade to @astrojs/node 11.1.3 or later. Deployments that terminate malformed Host headers at a reverse proxy or CDN are not reachable through this path.
Credits
Reported by @Celggar.
Details
- Affected product:
- astrojs-node
- Affected packages:
- @astrojs/node @ 10.1.2 (+4 more)