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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2026-84428 json

fastify vulnerable to header validation bypass via incomplete schema case normalization

published 2026-09-04 2 mo ago modified 2026-10-01 39 d ago also EUVD-2026-70998 , GHSA-9q9j-q6p8-xq58

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 44%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

fastify versions before 5.12.2 implement the case-insensitive nature of HTTP header names by lowercasing names in a route's header schema before compiling it, but the transformation is incomplete: it lowercases the properties keys and the root-level required array, and does not lowercase the trigger and dependent names inside the JSON Schema Draft 7 dependencies keyword. Because Node stores request header names in lowercase, a canonical-case dependency such as requiring an authentication header whenever a privileged-mode header is present never matches, and the presence assertion is silently skipped. An unauthenticated remote client can therefore send the header that activates a privileged branch while omitting the header the dependency was meant to require, bypassing the conditional check. Users should upgrade to fastify 5.12.2 or later.

Patch / fix

  • npm fastify 5.12.2
  • fastify fastify 5.12.2

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-84428 updated cvss 7.5

fastify: fastify: Header validation bypass via incomplete schema case normalization

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) 3 rhelai3/bootc-cuda-rhel9, rhelai3/bootc-rocm-rhel9, rhelai3/bootc-gaudi-rhel9, rhelai3/disk-image-cuda-rhel9
    affected: workaround, no fix available, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenShift AI 2.25 rhoai/odh-dashboard-rhel9 1791853525, rhoai/odh-mod-arch-model-registry-rhel9 1791853432
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:87410
  • Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.4 rhoai/odh-dashboard-rhel9 1791861020, rhoai/odh-mod-arch-maas-rhel9 1791860708, rhoai/odh-mod-arch-automl-rhel9 1791861032, rhoai/odh-mod-arch-gen-ai-rhel9 1791861479, rhoai/odh-mod-arch-mlflow-rhel9 1791861383, rhoai/odh-mod-arch-autorag-rhel9 1791860994, +2 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:84734
  • Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.5 rhoai/odh-core-bff-rhel9 1791945789, rhoai/odh-dashboard-rhel9 1791945160, rhoai/odh-mod-arch-maas-rhel9 1791945249, rhoai/odh-mod-arch-automl-rhel9 1791945173, rhoai/odh-mod-arch-gen-ai-rhel9 1791944979, rhoai/odh-mod-arch-mlflow-rhel9 1791945636, +5 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:86891
  • Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces 3.31 devspaces/dashboard-rhel9 1791945540
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:90321
  • Red Hat OpenShift AI 2.25 rhoai/odh-rhel9-operator 1792570619, rhoai/odh-vllm-cpu-rhel9 1792018436, rhoai/odh-modelmesh-rhel9 1790881700, rhoai/odh-operator-bundle 1792571069, rhoai/odh-vllm-cuda-rhel9 1791358976, rhoai/odh-vllm-rocm-rhel9 1791282503, +64 more Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.4 rhoai/odh-cli-rhel9 1791509689, rhoai/rhai-cli-rhel9 1791509689, rhoai/odh-automl-rhel9 1791535789, rhoai/odh-mlflow-rhel9 1791865967, rhoai/odh-autorag-rhel9 1791557539, rhoai/odh-trainer-rhel9 1791869783, +92 more Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.5 rhoai/odh-cli-rhel9 1791945905, rhoai/rhai-cli-rhel9 1791945905, rhoai/odh-automl-rhel9 1791916705, rhoai/odh-mlflow-rhel9 1791947857, rhoai/odh-autorag-rhel9 1791903266, rhoai/odh-trainer-rhel9 1791952138, +102 more Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces 3.31 devspaces/udi-rhel9 1792708612, devspaces/code-rhel9 1792599388, devspaces/server-rhel9 1792775639, devspaces/openvsx-rhel9 1792494821, devspaces/traefik-rhel9 1792464177, devspaces/udi-base-rhel9 1792686842, +9 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.52% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 44% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
GitHub 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm fastify
<5.12.2
5.12.2

Affected products

  • fastify fastify

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-178 Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity

References

Sources

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