Vulnerability · Published Dec 8, 2023 · Assigned by GitHub_M
CVE-2023-49799Server-Side Request Forgery in nuxt-api-party
High 7.5
In plain English
A high-severity server-side request forgery in nuxt-api-party from johannschopplich. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.8% (higher than 57% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.
Official description
`nuxt-api-party` is an open source module to proxy API requests. nuxt-api-party attempts to check if the user has passed an absolute URL to prevent the aforementioned attack. This has been recently changed to use the regular expression `^https?://`, however this regular expression can be bypassed by an absolute URL with leading whitespace. For example `\nhttps://whatever.com` which has a leading newline. According to the fetch specification, before a fetch is made the URL is normalized. "To normalize a byte sequence potentialValue, remove any leading and trailing HTTP whitespace bytes from potentialValue.". This means the final request will be normalized to `https://whatever.com` bypassing the check and nuxt-api-party will send a request outside of the whitelist. This could allow us to leak credentials or perform Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF). This vulnerability has been addressed in version 0.22.1. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should revert to the previous method of detecting absolute URLs.
Affected packages & fixed versions
| Ecosystem | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| npm | nuxt-api-party | 0.22.0 | GHSA-3wfp-253j-5jxv |
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| johannschopplich | nuxt-api-party | < 0.22.1 |
Weakness: CWE-918 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
References
- https://github.com/johannschopplich/nuxt-api-party/security/advisories/GHSA-3wfp-253j-5jxv x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/ x_refsource_MISC
- https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#http-whitespace-byte x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/johannschopplich/nuxt-api-party/blob/777462e1e3af1d9f8938aa33f230cd8cb6e0cc9a/src/runtime/server/handler.ts#L31 x_refsource_MISC
- https://infra.spec.whatwg.org/#byte-sequence x_refsource_MISC