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Description

fast-uri is a dependency-free RFC 3986 URI parser and serializer for Node.js. In versions before 2.4.8, from 3.0.0 through 3.1.8, and from 4.0.0 through 4.2.2, fast-uri percent-decodes the scheme component with the legacy global unescape() function before validating it, so an input whose decoded scheme is a dangerous token is emitted as a live scheme even though RFC 3986 does not allow percent-encoding in a scheme and no other parser accepts it. An application that screens dangerous schemes on the raw input and then stores or renders the normalized or resolved result can turn an inert string into an executable javascript, data, or vbscript URL, producing a stored or reflected cross-site scripting vector, and the equal() comparison treats an encoded and a plain scheme as the same, which can bypass equality-based allowlists. The issue is fixed in fast-uri 2.4.8, 3.1.9, and 4.2.3, and users should upgrade to one of these versions or later. As a workaround, reject input whose scheme part contains a percent sign, or check the parsed scheme against an allowlist after normalization and use that same parsed result rather than the raw string.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
fast-uri fast-uri < 2.4.8, 3.0.0 – < 3.1.9, 4.0.0 – < 4.2.3 2.4.8

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 node-ajv 8.20.0~ds+~cs7.2.4-1 —
Debian 13 node-ajv No fix yet —
Debian 12 node-ajv No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 node-ajv No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS node-ajv No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS node-ajv No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS node-ajv No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS node-ajv No fix yet —
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS node-ajv No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed git-bug 0.11.0-3.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:12261-1
openSUSE Tumbleweed modelcontextprotocol-servers 2.4.0-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:12531-1

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling opensearch-dashboards-3-dashboards-maps +11 3.9.0-r4 —
Wolfi rolling prism 5.16.0-r20 —
Wolfi rolling renovate 44.190.2-r0 —
Wolfi rolling serve 14.2.6-r9 —
Wolfi rolling tileserver-gl 5.6.0-r21 —
Wolfi rolling vitess-24 24.0.5-r6 —
Wolfi rolling yaml-language-server 2.0.0-r2 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm fast-uri < 2.4.8 2.4.8 GHSA-w74x-v6f9-j3xg
npm fast-uri >= 3.0.0, < 3.1.9 3.1.9 GHSA-w74x-v6f9-j3xg
npm fast-uri >= 4.0.0, < 4.2.3 4.2.3 GHSA-w74x-v6f9-j3xg

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