CVE-2026-3635
Essential information
- Published
- 23/03/2026 14:16
- Modified
- 23/03/2026 14:31
- Author
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- Creator
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- CVSS
- 6.1 MEDIUM (v3.1)
- CISA KEV
- No
- CWE
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- CVSS vector
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CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N—
CVSS metrics
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- Authentication
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- Confidentiality impact
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- Integrity impact
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- Availability impact
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- Exploitability
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- Report confidence
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- Attack vector
- ADJACENT_NETWORK
- Attack complexity
- HIGH
- Privileges required
- NONE
- User interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- CHANGED
- Confidentiality impact
- HIGH
- Integrity impact
- NONE
- Availability impact
- NONE
- Exploit code maturity
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- Attack vector
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- Privileges required
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- User interaction
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- Confidentiality (V)
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- Confidentiality (S)
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- Integrity (V)
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- Integrity (S)
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- Availability (V)
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- Availability (S)
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- Exploit maturity
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Description
Summary
When trustProxy is configured with a restrictive trust function (e.g., a specific IP like trustProxy: '10.0.0.1', a subnet, a hop count, or a custom function), the request.protocol and request.host getters read X-Forwarded-Proto and X-Forwarded-Host headers from any connection — including connections from untrusted IPs. This allows an attacker connecting directly to Fastify (bypassing the proxy) to spoof both the protocol and host seen by the application.
Affected Versions
fastify <= 5.8.2
Impact
Applications using request.protocol or request.host for security decisions (HTTPS enforcement, secure cookie flags, CSRF origin checks, URL construction, host-based routing) are affected when trustProxy is configured with a restrictive trust function.
When trustProxy: true (trust everything), both host and protocol trust all forwarded headers — this is expected behavior. The vulnerability only manifests with restrictive trust configurations.
NVD status
- Status
- Awaiting Analysis — CVE has been marked for Analysis. Normally once in this state the CVE will be analyzed by NVD staff within 24 hours.
- Source
- ce714d77-add3-4f53-aff5-83d477b104bb
- NVD
- View on NVD
Affected products (CPE)
| Product | CPE |
|---|---|
| fastify / fastify | cpe:2.3:a:fastify:fastify:<5.8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |