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Medium severity4.8NVD Advisory· Published Jul 29, 2026· Updated Aug 4, 2026

CVE-2026-16728

CVE-2026-16728

Description

undici's retry interceptor can deliver a response whose body length does not match the Content-Length header exposed to the application after a retry or resume of a partial response. In undici before 6.28.0, from 7.0.0 up to before 7.29.0, and from 8.0.0 up to before 8.9.0, a malicious or faulty upstream can return a partial response with a mismatched framing header, close the socket early, and have the retry interceptor assemble a body of a different length while the original Content-Length stays attached. Applications that use the retry interceptor and forward upstream headers and bodies downstream, such as proxies or gateways, may then emit an invalid HTTP response with a stale Content-Length, leading to downstream response desynchronization, connection hangs, or response corruption. Exploitation requires the retry interceptor enabled, an upstream returning a mismatched partial response, and a downstream forwarder that does not remove or recalculate Content-Length. The issue is fixed in undici 6.28.0, 7.29.0, and 8.9.0.

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Affected packages

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PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
undicinpm
< 6.28.06.28.0
undicinpm
>= 7.0.0, < 7.29.07.29.0
undicinpm
>= 8.0.0, < 8.9.08.9.0

Affected products

34

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