Clerk: SSRF in the opt-in clerkFrontendApiProxy feature may leak secret keys to unintended host - @clerk/hono

Description

The clerkFrontendApiProxy function in @clerk/backend is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF). An unauthenticated attacker can craft a request path that causes the proxy to send the application’s Clerk-Secret-Key to an attacker-controlled server.

Recommendation

Update the @clerk/hono package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): >= 0.1.0, <= 0.1.4
• Patched version(s): 0.1.5

References

• GHSA-gjxx-92w9-8v8f
• CVE-2026-34076
• CWE-918
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A10
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• Clerk: SSRF in the opt-in clerkFrontendApiProxy feature may leak secret keys to unintended host - CVE-2026-34076
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• Strapi may leak sensitive data via relational filtering due to lack of query sanitization - CVE-2026-27886
• Strapi may leak sensitive user information, user reset password, tokens via content-manager views - CVE-2023-36472

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