Undici has CRLF Injection in undici via `upgrade` option
### Impact When an application passes user-controlled input to the `upgrade` option of `client.request()`, an attacker can inject CRLF sequences (`\r\n`) to: 1. Inject arbitrary HTTP headers 2. Terminate the HTTP request prematurely and smuggle raw data to non-HTTP services (Redis, Memcached, Elasticsearch) The vulnerability exists because undici writes the `upgrade` value directly to the socket without validating for invalid header characters: ```javascript // lib/dispatcher/client-h1.js:1121 if (upgrade) { header += `connection: upgrade\r\nupgrade: ${upgrade}\r\n` } ``` ### Patches Patched in the undici version v7.24.0 and v6.24.0. Users should upgrade to this version or later. ### Workarounds Sanitize the `upgrade` option string before passing to undici: ```javascript function sanitizeUpgrade(value) { if (/[\r\n]/.test(value)) { throw new Error('Invalid upgrade value') } return value } client.request({ upgrade: sanitizeUpgrade(userInput) }) ```
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
219 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
### Impact When an application passes user-controlled input to the `upgrade` option of `client.request()`, an attacker can inject CRLF sequences (`\r\n`) to: 1. Inject arbitrary HTTP headers 2. Terminate the HTTP request prematurely and smuggle raw data to non-HTTP services (Redis, Memcached, Elasticsearch) The vulnerability exists because undici writes the `upgrade` value directly to the socket without validating for invalid header characters: ```javascript // lib/dispatcher/client-h1.js:1121 if (upgrade) { header += `connection: upgrade\r\nupgrade: ${upgrade}\r\n` } ``` ### Patches Patched in the undici version v7.24.0 and v6.24.0. Users should upgrade to this version or later. ### Workarounds Sanitize the `upgrade` option string before passing to undici: ```javascript function sanitizeUpgrade(value) { if (/[\r\n]/.test(value)) { throw new Error('Invalid upgrade value') } return value } client.request({ upgrade: sanitizeUpgrade(userInput) }) ```
ImpactWhen an application passes user-controlled input to the upgrade option of client.request(), an attacker can inject CRLF sequences (\r\n) to: * Inject arbitrary HTTP headers * Terminate the HTTP request prematurely and smuggle raw data to non-HTTP services (Redis, Memcached, Elasticsearch) The vulnerability exists because undici writes the upgrade value directly to the socket without validating for invalid header characters: // lib/dispatcher/client-h1.js:1121 if (upgrade) { header += `connection: upgrade\r\nupgrade: ${upgrade}\r\n` }
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://cna.openjsf.org/security-advisories.html
- https://github.com/nodejs/undici
- https://github.com/nodejs/undici/security/advisories/GHSA-4992-7rv2-5pvq
- https://hackerone.com/reports/3487198
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-1527
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/1xxx/CVE-2026-1527.json
- https://github.com/nodejs/undici/