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Medium · 5.9 CVE-2026-92081 EUVD-2026-80315GHSA-4mh8-r7rc-xpvc

fastify vulnerable to Denial of Service via unhandled exception on HTTP/2 trailer responses

Published Sep 16, 2026 · Updated Sep 16, 2026 · Assigned by openjs

Description

fastify is a fast and low-overhead web framework for Node.js. In versions before 5.12.5, when a route registers a response trailer via reply.trailer() and is served over HTTP/2, fastify unconditionally sets the Transfer-Encoding: chunked header, which is forbidden on HTTP/2, so Node.js throws while serializing the response headers. The exception is not caught and becomes an uncaughtException, so a single unauthenticated HTTP/2 request to any route that uses trailers crashes the server process and drops all in-flight requests, and it can be repeated on every restart. The issue is fixed in fastify 5.12.5, and users should upgrade to 5.12.5 or later. As a workaround, avoid registering response trailers with reply.trailer() on routes served over HTTP/2 until upgrading.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
fastify fastify < 5.12.5 5.12.5

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm fastify < 5.12.5 5.12.5 GHSA-4mh8-r7rc-xpvc

References