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Medium · 4.8 CVE-2026-88038 EUVD-2026-75398

cookies vulnerable to Set-Cookie attribute injection via unvalidated domain and path options

Published Sep 10, 2026 · Updated Sep 10, 2026 · Assigned by openjs

Description

cookies is a Node.js library for reading and writing HTTP cookies, used by Koa via ctx.cookies. In versions before 0.9.2 the library validates the cookie name and value against character sets that reject the semicolon separator, but the domain and path options are checked only against a permissive RFC 7230 field-content matcher that allows semicolons, and both are written into the Set-Cookie header unescaped. An application that passes untrusted or request-derived data into the domain or path option can therefore inject additional cookie attributes, overriding SameSite, Secure, HttpOnly, or Domain on the cookies the application issues. This is a Set-Cookie attribute injection issue (CWE-74). The issue is fixed in cookies 0.9.2, which validates domain and path against RFC 6265 character sets. As a workaround, keep domain and path application-set rather than derived from untrusted input.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
cookies cookies < 0.9.2 0.9.2

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-cookies 0.9.2+~0.9.2-1 —
Debian 13 node-cookies No fix yet —
Debian 12 node-cookies No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 node-cookies No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS node-cookies No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS node-cookies No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS node-cookies No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS node-cookies No fix yet —
Show 2 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS node-cookies No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS node-cookies No fix yet —

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