Medium severity - Open Redirect vulnerability in express (package.json)

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• Package Manager: npm
• Vulnerable module: express
• Introduced through: [email protected] and [email protected]

Detailed paths

• Introduced through: [email protected] › [email protected]

Overview

express is a minimalist web framework.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Open Redirect due to the implementation of URL encoding using encodeurl before passing it to the location header. This can lead to unexpected evaluations of malformed URLs by common redirect allow list implementations in applications, allowing an attacker to bypass a properly implemented allow list and redirect users to malicious sites.

Remediation

Upgrade express to version 4.19.2, 5.0.0-beta.3 or higher.

References

• Github Commit
• GitHub Commit
• Github Issue
• GitHub PR
  
  SNYK-JS-EXPRESS-6474509
  (CVE-2024-29041) [email protected]