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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2021-27516

URI.js (aka urijs) before 1.19.6 mishandles certain uses of backslash such as http:\/ and interprets the URI as a relative path.

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31 Oct 2026, 09:45 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2021-27516

core-osv · Original source

Published 22 Feb 2021, 00:15 UTC

URI.js (aka urijs) before 1.19.6 mishandles certain uses of backslash such as http:\/ and interprets the URI as a relative path.

osv:CVE-2021-27516
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-27516",
  "method": "structured",
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    "title": "CVE-2021-27516",
    "summary": "URI.js (aka urijs) before 1.19.6 mishandles certain uses of backslash such as http:\\/ and interprets the URI as a relative path.",
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    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
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      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:47:52.406771441Z",
      "provider": "osv",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 379798,
  "published_at": "2021-02-22T00:15:12.62+00:00"
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