High
Security advisory
URI.js (aka urijs) before 1.19.6 mishandles certain uses of backslash such as http:\/ and interprets the URI as a relative path.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-27516
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 09:45 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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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