GHSA-f27p-cmv8-xhm6 CVE-2025-21620
fetch: Authorization headers not dropped when redirecting cross-origin
- Severity
- 7.5 / 10
- High · CVSS 3.0
- Exploit chance (EPSS)
- 0.52%
- Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Higher than 44.29% of scored vulnerabilities.
- Known exploited
- No
- Not in CISA's catalog
- Weakness
- CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
- Fix
- Available
- 2 packages have a fixed version
Description
Summary
When you send a request with the Authorization header to one domain, and the response asks to redirect to a different domain, Deno'sfetch() redirect handling creates a follow-up redirect request that keeps the original Authorization header, leaking its content to that second domain.
Details
The right behavior would be to drop the Authorization header instead, in this scenario. The same is generally applied to Cookie and Proxy-Authorization headers, and is done for not only host changes, but also protocol/port changes. Generally referred to as "origin".
The documentation states:
Deno does not follow the same-origin policy, because the Deno user agent currently does not have the concept of origins, and it does not have a cookie jar. This means Deno does not need to protect against leaking authenticated data cross origin
Reproduction
const ac = new AbortController()
const server1 = Deno.serve({ port: 3001, signal: ac.signal }, (req) => {
return new Response(null, {
status: 302,
headers: {
'location': 'http://localhost:3002/redirected'
},
})
})
const server2 = Deno.serve({ port: 3002, signal: ac.signal }, (req) => {
const body = JSON.stringify({
url: req.url,
hasAuth: req.headers.has('authorization'),
})
return new Response(body, {
status: 200,
headers: {'content-type': 'application/json'},
})
})
async function main() {
const response = await fetch("http://localhost:3001/", {
headers: {authorization: 'Bearer foo'}
})
const body = await response.json()
ac.abort()
if (body.hasAuth) {
console.error('ERROR: Authorization header should not be present after cross-origin redirect')
} else {
console.log('SUCCESS: Authorization header is not present after cross-origin redirect')
}
}
setTimeout(main, 500)
Affected versions
crates.io
| Package | Vulnerable | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| deno | <= 1.46.3 |
No fix yet |
| deno | >= 2.0.0, < 2.1.2 |
2.1.2 |
| deno_fetch | >= 0.0.1, < 0.204.0 |
0.204.0 |
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.
deno crates.io → 2.1.2
- cargo
cargo update -p deno --precise 2.1.2
deno_fetch crates.io → 0.204.0
- cargo
cargo update -p deno_fetch --precise 0.204.0
Severity breakdown
CVSS 3.0 7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- None
Weakness
CWE-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information.
How to prevent it
- Architecture and Design: Compartmentalize the system to have "safe" areas where trust boundaries can be unambiguously drawn. Do not allow sensitive data to go outside of the trust boundary and always be careful when interfacing with a compartment outside of the safe area. Ensure that appropriate compartmentalization is built into the system design, and the compartmentalization allows for and reinforces privilege separation functionality. Architects and designers should rely on the principle of least privilege to decide the appropriate time to use privileges and the time to drop privileges.
References
Advisories
Packages
Other links
Timeline
- Published
- Last updated by the source
- Latest EPSS score
Related advisories
| Advisory | Severity | Why it's related |
|---|---|---|
| GHSA-x2qc-cmh9-f4hf Deno: Denial of service via non-ASCII bytes in WebSocket response headers | Medium | Also affects deno |
| GHSA-8xpq-cjcf-3wh9 Deno: Permission Bypass via Unicode Normalization Mismatch on macOS (APFS) | High | Also affects deno |
| GHSA-968w-xfqw-vp9q Deno: BYONM module resolution allows `package.json` main path traversal to bypass `--allow-read` restrictions | Medium | Also affects deno |
| GHSA-v8fw-85r8-5m23 Deno: Node TCPWrap numeric hostname aliases bypass --deny-net resolved-IP deny checks | Medium | Also affects deno |
| GHSA-9xg4-qhm4-g43w Deno: Miller-Rabin Primality Test Allows Zero Rounds | High | Also affects deno |
| GHSA-7xh3-mhg9-jcw8 Deno: Command Injection via spawnSync & spawn on Windows | High | Also affects deno |
| GHSA-4c8g-jvcx-v4hv Deno: process.loadEnvFile() bypasses env permission checks and mutates process.env with only read access | Medium | Also affects deno |
| GHSA-83pc-3rw9-qpwj Deno: WebSocket API sandbox bypass via missing post-DNS check | Medium | Also affects deno |
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