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ip-address: isInSubnet() and isHostInSubnet() compare addresses of different families as if they shared an address space, allowing an allowlist check to admit an address outside its range

Type: advisorySource: OSV1 source record

### Summary `isInSubnet()` and `isHostInSubnet()` accept an address of either family and compare masked binary strings without checking that both operands are the same family. `Address4` pads to 32 bits and `Address6` to 128, so whenever the leading bits agree the strings are equal: `new Address6('a00::1').isInSubnet(new Address4('10.0.0.0/8'))` is `true`, and `new Address4('32.0.0.1').isInSubnet(new Address6('2000::/3'))` is `true`. No IPv4 address is inside an IPv6 network, so both answers are untrue. An application that parses untrusted input as whichever family accepts it and then tests the result against a fixed-family allowlist can admit an address outside the list. ### Details Both methods are in `src/common.ts`: ```ts export function isInSubnet(this: Address4 | Address6, address: Address4 | Address6) { if (this.subnetMask < address.subnetMask) { return false; } return isHostInSubnet.call(this, address); } export function isHostInSubnet(this: Address4 | Address6, address: Address4 | Address6) { return this.mask(address.subnetMask) === address.mask(); } ``` `mask(n)` returns the first `n` bits of the address as a string of `0` and `1`, taken from a representation padded to the family's width. `new Address6('a00::1').mask(8)` is `'00001010'`, and so is `new Address4('10.0.0.0/8').mask()`, so string equality reports containment. The signature admits either family on either side, so TypeScript raises nothing, and the `v4` property on `Address6` marks IPv4 notation (`::ffff

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GHSA-j6r3-76f7-8jcv

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ip-address

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10.7.1

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  {
    "ranges": [
      {
        "type": "SEMVER",
        "events": [
          {
            "introduced": "0"
          },
          {
            "fixed": "10.7.1"
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "package": {
      "name": "ip-address",
      "purl": "pkg:npm/ip-address",
      "ecosystem": "npm"
    },
    "database_specific": {
      "source": "https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/09/GHSA-j6r3-76f7-8jcv/GHSA-j6r3-76f7-8jcv.json",
      "last_known_affected_version_range": "<= 10.7.0"
    }
  }
]
Related CVEs
CVE-2026-101912

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