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fastify vulnerable to request validation bypass via skipped boolean false schemas

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### Impact Fastify decided whether to validate a request part by checking its schema for JavaScript truthiness. JSON Schema Draft 7 defines the boolean `false` as a valid schema that rejects every instance, but because `false` is falsy, a route that set `body`, `querystring`, `params`, or `headers` to `false` had that part left uncompiled: no validator was attached and the request reached the handler. An application that used `false` as a deny-all schema to make a route unreachable was therefore fully bypassed, and an unauthenticated remote client could reach the handler with any input. The same applied to the documented `query` alias for `querystring`. This is a complete bypass rather than a weak-schema issue, since `false` is the strongest JSON Schema assertion and must always fail. ### Patches Request-part schemas are now selected by an explicit presence check rather than truthiness, so a boolean `false` (or `true`) schema is compiled and enforced, including through the `query` alias. Patched in fastify `5.12.2`. The fix is also included in the `6.0.0` release. ### Workarounds If upgrading is not immediately possible, express a deny-all request schema with an always-failing object schema instead of the boolean `false` (for example `{ "not": {} }`), or reject the request in an `onRequest` hook.

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GHSA-hwr6-493r-vm6h

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Source reference: osv:GHSA-hwr6-493r-vm6h

fastify

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Fixed versions
5.12.2

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        "type": "SEMVER",
        "events": [
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    ],
    "package": {
      "name": "fastify",
      "purl": "pkg:npm/fastify",
      "ecosystem": "npm"
    },
    "database_specific": {
      "source": "https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/09/GHSA-hwr6-493r-vm6h/GHSA-hwr6-493r-vm6h.json"
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Related CVEs
CVE-2026-84469

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Publisher severity

high

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#51912 · Revision 1
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