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ip-address: Address6.isLinkLocal() recognizes fe80::/64 rather than fe80::/10, allowing SSRF and trust-boundary bypass to on-link hosts

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### Summary `Address6.isLinkLocal()` recognizes `fe80::/64` rather than `fe80::/10`. Link-local unicast is the whole `/10` under RFC 4291 §2.4 and the IANA IPv6 Special-Purpose Address Registry, so the method returns `false` for every link-local address outside the one `/64` that stateless address autoconfiguration happens to use. `new Address6('fe81::1').isLinkLocal()` is `false`. The library contradicts itself on the same object: for `fe81::1`, `getType()` returns `'Link-local unicast'`, `getScope()` returns `'Link local'`, and `isHostInSubnet(new Address6('fe80::/10'))` returns `true`, while `isLinkLocal()` returns `false`. An application that builds a network trust-boundary decision on these checks (for example a filter intended to block Server-Side Request Forgery, or SSRF) will classify a link-local target as unremarkable and allow the request. SSRF is an attack in which a user-supplied address coaxes the server into making a request to an internal destination the user could not otherwise reach. ### Details `isLinkLocal()` in `src/ipv6.ts` compares the first 64 bits of the address against a literal string: ```ts // Zeroes are required, i.e. we can't check isHostInSubnet with 'fe80::/10' if ( this.getBitsBase2(0, 64) === '1111111010000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000' ) { return true; } ``` The comparison requires the first 64 bits to be exactly `fe80:0000:0000:0000`, so it accepts 2⁶⁴ of the 2¹¹⁸ addresses in `fe80::/10`. The comment states a premise

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ip-address

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10.5.1

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        "type": "SEMVER",
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    "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-rpw4-54j3-4h4q/GHSA-rpw4-54j3-4h4q.json",
      "last_known_affected_version_range": "<= 10.5.0"
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]
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CVE-2026-101913

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