fastify vulnerable to authentication bypass via malformed URLs reaching encapsulated not-found handlers
### Impact Fastify routes a malformed URL under one plugin prefix to the custom not-found handler of a different sibling plugin, invoking the handler registered last and skipping the `preHandler` declared in its `setNotFoundHandler()`. When the request method has no route in the main router, a malformed request target reaches Fastify's internal not-found router before URL decoding and is dispatched through a single shared handler pointer, regardless of prefix and without the normal request lifecycle. An unauthenticated request to a public prefix can therefore reach an authentication-protected not-found handler registered under a different prefix and receive its full response, breaking prefix encapsulation and bypassing the authentication hook. Applications whose private or tenant fallbacks return protected data from a not-found handler are affected. ### Patches Patched in fastify 5.12.2. Malformed URLs are now routed through the configured `onBadUrl` and `onMaxParamLength` handlers so they fail closed before any application not-found handler runs, and the shared not-found handler pointer has been removed. ### Workarounds Reject malformed request targets before they reach the application, for example at an upstream proxy or gateway, and do not rely on a not-found handler to serve protected data. A global `onRequest` authentication hook does not mitigate this, because the malformed-URL path skips it.
GHSA-p68q-wchp-6fh7
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Security context
Source reference: osv:GHSA-p68q-wchp-6fh7
fastify
Source reference: /affected/0/package/name
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- 5.12.2
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Structured affected-version data
Original package identities and version rules from this source.
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"ranges": [
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"type": "SEMVER",
"events": [
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"introduced": "4.0.0"
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{
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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-p68q-wchp-6fh7/GHSA-p68q-wchp-6fh7.json"
}
}
]- Related CVEs
- CVE-2026-76169
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/aliases
Publisher severity
high
Source reference: /database_specific/severity
- Event
- #51915 · Revision 1
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