GHSA-3h52-269p-cp9r CVE-2025-48068
Information exposure in Next.js dev server due to lack of origin verification
- Severity
- 0.0 / 10
- Medium · CVSS 4.0
- Exploit chance (EPSS)
- 0.20%
- Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Higher than 10.25% of scored vulnerabilities.
- Known exploited
- No
- Not in CISA's catalog
- Weakness
- CWE-1385 Missing Origin Validation in WebSockets
- Fix
15.2.2- Upgrade next to this version or later
Description
Summary
A low-severity vulnerability in Next.js has been fixed in version 15.2.2. This issue may have allowed limited source code exposure when the dev server was running with the App Router enabled. The vulnerability only affects local development environments and requires the user to visit a malicious webpage while npm run dev is active.
Because the mitigation is potentially a breaking change for some development setups, to opt-in to the fix, you must configure allowedDevOrigins in your next config after upgrading to a patched version. Learn more.
Learn more: https://vercel.com/changelog/cve-2025-48068
Credit
Thanks to sapphi-red and Radman Siddiki for responsibly disclosing this issue.
Affected versions
npm
How to fix
Move to the fixed version or later with your package manager, update the lockfile, and run your tests. If the package only arrives through another dependency, upgrade that dependency first. If none of its releases pulls a fixed version yet, force the version with your package manager's override.
next npm → 15.2.2
- npm
npm install next@15.2.2- yarn
yarn add next@15.2.2- pnpm
pnpm add next@15.2.2
Severity breakdown
CVSS 4.0 0.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:N/SA:N
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- Present
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- Passive
- Confidentiality (vulnerable system)
- Low
- Integrity (vulnerable system)
- None
- Availability (vulnerable system)
- None
- Confidentiality (subsequent systems)
- Low
- Integrity (subsequent systems)
- None
- Availability (subsequent systems)
- None
CVSS 3.1 4.3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- None
Weakness
CWE-1385: Missing Origin Validation in WebSockets
The product uses a WebSocket, but it does not properly verify that the source of data or communication is valid.
How to prevent it
- Implementation: Enable CORS-like access restrictions by verifying the 'Origin' header during the WebSocket handshake.
- Implementation: Use a randomized CSRF token to verify requests.
- Implementation: Use TLS to securely communicate using 'wss' (WebSocket Secure) instead of 'ws'.
- Architecture and Design, Implementation: Require user authentication prior to the WebSocket connection being established. For example, the WS library in Node has a 'verifyClient' function.
- Implementation: Leverage rate limiting to prevent against DoS. Use of the leaky bucket algorithm can help with this.
- Implementation: Use a library that provides restriction of the payload size. For example, WS library for Node includes 'maxPayloadoption' that can be set.
- Implementation: Treat data/input as untrusted in both directions and apply the same data/input sanitization as XSS, SQLi, etc.
References
Advisories
Packages
Other links
Timeline
- Published
- Last updated by the source
- Latest EPSS score
Related advisories
| Advisory | Severity | Why it's related |
|---|---|---|
| GHSA-673q-mjm6-r5xr Next.js: Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in `use cache` functions returning typed arrays | Critical | Also affects next |
| GHSA-2464-fhr4-w9xw Next.js: Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in Image Optimization API when SVG files are used | Critical | Also affects next |
| GHSA-p3m5-59mp-jv5r Next.js: Denial of Service in App Router using Server Actions | High | Also affects next |
| GHSA-3w37-wq28-93x7 Next.js: Pending `use cache` fill can leak Draft Mode content into regular responses and persisted pages | Medium | Also affects next |
| GHSA-4jqv-mc3x-m676 Next.js has cache poisoning of SSG and ISR pages in self-hosted applications | Medium | Also affects next |
| GHSA-39w2-rjm5-chcv Next.js has information disclosure in development server's Model Context Protocol endpoint | Medium | Also affects next |
| GHSA-f87g-xv8r-7p7x Next.js has information disclosure in App Router metadata image routes via dynamicParams bypass | Medium | Also affects next |
| GHSA-mcj8-r9mp-w47p Next.js has cache poisoning in SSG/ISR rendering that leads to cross-user content substitution and persistent denial of service | Medium | Also affects next |
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