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Medium · 5.4 CVE-2025-64166 EUVD-2025-208313GHSA-v66j-6wwf-jc57

Mercurius: Incorrect Content-Type parsing can lead to CSRF attack

Published Mar 5, 2026 · Updated Mar 5, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Mercurius is a GraphQL adapter for Fastify. Prior to version 16.4.0, a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability was identified. The issue arises from incorrect parsing of the Content-Type header in requests. Specifically, requests with Content-Type values such as application/x-www-form-urlencoded, multipart/form-data, or text/plain could be misinterpreted as application/json. This misinterpretation bypasses the preflight checks performed by the fetch() API, potentially allowing unauthorized actions to be performed on behalf of an authenticated user. This issue has been patched in version 16.4.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
mercurius-js mercurius < 16.4.0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm mercurius < 16.4.0 16.4.0 GHSA-v66j-6wwf-jc57

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