Headline
GHSA-rv95-896h-c2vc: Express.js Open Redirect in malformed URLs
Impact
Versions of Express.js prior to 4.19.2 and pre-release alpha and beta versions before 5.0.0-beta.3 are affected by an open redirect vulnerability using malformed URLs.
When a user of Express performs a redirect using a user-provided URL Express performs an encode using encodeurl
on the contents before passing it to the location
header. This can cause malformed URLs to be evaluated in unexpected ways by common redirect allow list implementations in Express applications, leading to an Open Redirect via bypass of a properly implemented allow list.
The main method impacted is res.location()
but this is also called from within res.redirect()
.
Patches
https://github.com/expressjs/express/commit/0867302ddbde0e9463d0564fea5861feb708c2dd https://github.com/expressjs/express/commit/0b746953c4bd8e377123527db11f9cd866e39f94
An initial fix went out with [email protected]
, we then patched a feature regression in 4.19.1
and added improved handling for the bypass in 4.19.2
.
Workarounds
The fix for this involves pre-parsing the url string with either require('node:url').parse
or new URL
. These are steps you can take on your own before passing the user input string to res.location
or res.redirect
.
References
https://github.com/expressjs/express/pull/5539 https://github.com/koajs/koa/issues/1800 https://expressjs.com/en/4x/api.html#res.location
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- GitHub Advisory Database
- GitHub Reviewed
- CVE-2024-29041
Express.js Open Redirect in malformed URLs
Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Mar 25, 2024 in expressjs/express • Updated Mar 25, 2024
Package
npm express (npm)
Affected versions
< 4.19.2
>= 5.0.0-alpha.1, < 5.0.0-beta.3
Patched versions
4.19.2
5.0.0-beta.3
Description
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
Mar 25, 2024
Last updated
Mar 25, 2024
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