undici vulnerable to cookie attribute injection via unsanitized domain and unparsed setCookie fields
Impact
The setCookie function has two attribute injection paths. validateCookieDomain does not reject semicolons (validateCookiePath already does at 0x3B), so a domain value like example.com; SameSite=None lands verbatim as Domain=example.com; SameSite=None. The unparsed array's loop only checks each entry contains = and does not sanitize values, so an entry like X-Custom=val; HttpOnly lands unchanged, injecting HttpOnly without the caller setting cookie.httpOnly = true.
Applications that pass user-controlled input to these fields, typically multi-tenant or reverse-proxy servers that scope session cookies to a tenant-supplied domain, can have SameSite CSRF protections bypassed, Secure or HttpOnly forced or stripped, or the intended SameSite tier overridden.
Patches
Patched in undici v6.28.0, v7.29.0, and v8.9.0.
Workarounds
- Sanitize
domainvalues against the RFC 1034 letter-digit-hyphen set before passing tosetCookie. - Do not pass user-controlled data to the
unparsedfield.
Affected software
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| Platform | Package | Vulnerable versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| npm package | undici | < 6.28.0, >= 7.0.0, < 7.29.0, >= 8.0.0, < 8.9.0 | 6.28.0, 7.29.0, 8.9.0 |
References
- https://github.com/nodejs/undici/security/advisories/GHSA-v3r7-h72x-cjcm
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-16729
- https://github.com/nodejs/undici/commit/10d93fc332f2c8c161982dec3833201de29891b5
- https://github.com/nodejs/undici/commit/3bf91ddb493e853957f3a58e155326a668ab8aef
- https://github.com/nodejs/undici/commit/af7484043ee075a6f216da0ad77e1dac55199235
- https://cna.openjsf.org/security-advisories.html
- https://github.com/nodejs/undici
- https://github.com/nodejs/undici/releases/tag/v6.28.0
- https://github.com/nodejs/undici/releases/tag/v7.29.0
- https://github.com/nodejs/undici/releases/tag/v8.9.0
- CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
CWE-74- Platform
- npm
- Package
undici- Disclosed
- 03.08.2026
- Updated
- 11.10.2026 10:22
Sources and licenses
OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-v3r7-h72x-cjcm - CC BY 4.0
Vulnerability history: undici
All published vulnerabilities of this package (npm package), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.
- Total entries
- 46
- First → latest
- 06.2022 09.2026
- Without a fix
- 0
- Exploited in attacks
- 0
Severity breakdown
- High 13
- Medium 21
- Low 12
Disclosures per year
- 2022: 5
- 2023: 3
- 2024: 5
- 2025: 2
- 2026: 31
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