parse-url parses http URLs incorrectly, making it vulnerable to host name spoofing

Description

parse-url prior to 8.1.0 is vulnerable to Misinterpretation of Input. parse-url parses certain http or https URLs incorrectly, identifying the URL’s protocol as ssh. It may also parse the host name incorrectly.

Recommendation

Update the parse-url package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): < 8.1.0
• Patched version(s): 8.1.0

References

• GHSA-pqw5-jmp5-px4v
• huntr.dev
• CVE-2022-3224
• CWE-115
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• url-parse Incorrectly parses URLs that include an '@ - CVE-2022-0639
• url-parse incorrectly parses hostname / protocol due to unstripped leading control characters. - CVE-2022-0691
• Cross site scripting in parse-url - parse-url - CVE-2022-2218
• Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) in GitHub repository ionicabizau/parse-url - CVE-2022-2900

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Tags:

npm

parse-url