Incorrect Authorization in cross-fetch

Description

When fetching a remote url with Cookie if it get Location response header then it will follow that url and try to fetch that url with provided cookie . So cookie is leaked here to thirdparty. Ex: you try to fetch example.com with cookie and if it get redirect url to attacker.com then it fetch that redirect url with provided cookie .

Recommendation

Update the cross-fetch package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): **< 2.2.6

  >= 3.0.0, < 3.1.5**

• Patched version(s): **2.2.6

  3.1.5**

References

• GHSA-7gc6-qh9x-w6h8
• huntr.dev
• CVE-2022-1365
• CWE-359
• CWE-863
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A1
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• Incorrect Authorization in @uppy/companion - CVE-2022-0528
• Undici proxy-authorization header not cleared on cross-origin redirect in fetch - CVE-2024-24758
• Cross-site Scripting in Prism - CVE-2022-23647
• Cross site scripting in reveal.js - CVE-2022-0776

Tags:

npm

cross-fetch