VYPR
Critical severityNVD Advisory· Published Mar 2, 2021· Updated Aug 3, 2024

Prefix escape

CVE-2021-21321

Description

fastify-reply-from is an npm package which is a fastify plugin to forward the current http request to another server. In fastify-reply-from before version 4.0.2, by crafting a specific URL, it is possible to escape the prefix of the proxied backend service. If the base url of the proxied server is "/pub/", a user expect that accessing "/priv" on the target service would not be possible. In affected versions, it is possible. This is fixed in version 4.0.2.

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Affected packages

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PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
fastify-reply-fromnpm
< 4.0.24.0.2

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