CVE-2026-1527

Updated on 12 Mar 2026

Severity

4.6 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
4.6
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Overview

About vulnerability

ImpactWhen an application passes user-controlled input to the upgrade option of client.request(), an attacker can inject CRLF sequences (\r\n) to:

  • Inject arbitrary HTTP headers
  • Terminate the HTTP request prematurely and smuggle raw data to non-HTTP services (Redis, Memcached, Elasticsearch) The vulnerability exists because undici writes the upgrade value directly to the socket without validating for invalid header characters:

// lib/dispatcher/client-h1.js:1121 if (upgrade) { header += connection: upgrade\r\nupgrade: ${upgrade}\r\n }

Details

Affected product:
undici
Affected packages:
undici @ 6.11.1 (+2 more)

ImpactWhen an application passes user-controlled input to the upgrade option of client.request(), an attacker can inject CRLF sequences (\r\n) to:

  • Inject arbitrary HTTP headers
  • Terminate the HTTP request prematurely and smuggle raw data to non-HTTP services (Redis, Memcached, Elasticsearch) The vulnerability exists because undici writes the upgrade value directly to the socket without validating for invalid header characters:

// lib/dispatcher/client-h1.js:1121 if (upgrade) { header += connection: upgrade\r\nupgrade: ${upgrade}\r\n }

Fixes