fastify vulnerable to header validation bypass via incomplete schema case normalization
### Impact Fastify lowercases header-schema property names before compiling the schema, because Node.js stores request header names in lowercase. That normalization was incomplete: it lowercased only top-level `properties` keys and the root `required` array, and did not lowercase the JSON Schema Draft 7 `dependencies` keyword (its trigger keys and dependent property names) or names in nested subschemas. As a result, a header schema that uses `dependencies` to require one header when another is present (for example `X-Admin` requiring `X-Admin-Token`) never matches the lowercased request headers, so the dependency assertion is silently skipped. An unauthenticated remote client can send the header that activates a privileged path while omitting the header the dependency was meant to require, bypassing a schema-enforced security control. The header schema is idiomatic, valid JSON Schema Draft 7, and no custom validator, malformed request, or misconfiguration is required. ### Patches Header-schema names are now normalized across all schema positions (`properties`, `required`, `dependencies`, `dependentRequired`, `dependentSchemas`, and nested subschemas). Patched in fastify `5.12.2`. The fix is also included in the `6.0.0` release. Header schemas referenced through an external shared `$ref` (registered with `addSchema`) are not reached by this normalization and now emit an `FSTSEC002` startup warning; inline the header schema to keep case-insensitive assertions in effect. ### Wor
GHSA-9q9j-q6p8-xq58
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fastify
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
- 5.12.2
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]- Related CVEs
- CVE-2026-84428
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Publisher severity
high
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- Event
- #51917 · Revision 1
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