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Moderate severityNVD Advisory· Published Mar 12, 2026· Updated Mar 12, 2026

undici is vulnerable to Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling')

CVE-2026-1525

Description

Undici allows duplicate HTTP Content-Length headers when they are provided in an array with case-variant names (e.g., Content-Length and content-length). This produces malformed HTTP/1.1 requests with multiple conflicting Content-Length values on the wire.

Who is impacted:

  • Applications using undici.request(), undici.Client, or similar low-level APIs with headers passed as flat arrays
  • Applications that accept user-controlled header names without case-normalization

Potential consequences:

  • Denial of Service: Strict HTTP parsers (proxies, servers) will reject requests with duplicate Content-Length headers (400 Bad Request)
  • HTTP Request Smuggling: In deployments where an intermediary and backend interpret duplicate headers inconsistently (e.g., one uses the first value, the other uses the last), this can enable request smuggling attacks leading to ACL bypass, cache poisoning, or credential hijacking

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Affected packages

Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.

PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
undicinpm
< 6.24.06.24.0
undicinpm
>= 7.0.0, < 7.24.07.24.0

Affected products

51

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