CVE-2026-16732: fastify vulnerable to X-Forwarded-* spoofing under trustProxy hop-count
The fix for CVE-2026-3635 (GHSA-444r-cwp2-x5xf) added a proxyFn(socket.remoteAddress, 0) guard on the X-Forwarded-* reads in request.host, request.protocol, request.hostname, request.ip, and request.ips. That guard closes the IP, CIDR, and custom-function forms of trustProxy correctly because those forms compile to predicates that inspect the connecting address. The hop-count form (trustProxy: <number>) compiles to a predicate that structurally ignores the address argument, so the guard reduces to 0 < tp, always true for any tp >= 1.
Applications configured with trustProxy: <number> (documented as “behind N reverse proxies”, trustProxy: 1 being the canonical single-proxy setting) remain vulnerable. An attacker who can reach the Fastify origin directly, bypassing the front-facing proxy, can spoof the request fields exactly as in the unpatched version. Impact class matches the parent CVE-2026-3635: host injection in generated URLs, HTTPS-enforcement bypass, secure-cookie / CSRF-origin bypass, host-based routing and cache poisoning.
References
- cna.openjsf.org/security-advisories.html
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-3m5p-2c4r-xxw2
- github.com/fastify/fastify/commit/8acfea7eada05383a7357e3eb21c2628416df280
- github.com/fastify/fastify/releases/tag/v5.12.1
- github.com/fastify/fastify/security/advisories/GHSA-3m5p-2c4r-xxw2
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-16732
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