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CVE-2026-44373: Nitro has a proxy scope bypass via percent-encoded path traversal in `routeRules`

May 6, 2026

A proxy route rule like:

routeRules: {
"/api/orders/**": { proxy: { to: "http://upstream/orders/**" } }
}

is intended to limit the proxy to URLs under /api/orders/. Before the patch, an attacker could bypass that scope by sending percent-encoded path traversal (..%2f) in the URL, causing Nitro to forward a request that the upstream resolved outside the configured scope. Example exploit:

GET /api/orders/..%2fadmin%2fconfig.json

Nitro sees ..%2f as opaque characters at match time, the /api/orders/** rule matched, and the raw path was forwarded to the upstream as /orders/..%2fadmin/config.json. An upstream that decodes %2F to / then resolved .. and can serve /admin/config.json outside the intended scope.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-5w89-w975-hf9q
  • github.com/nitrojs/nitro
  • github.com/nitrojs/nitro/pull/4222
  • github.com/nitrojs/nitro/pull/4223
  • github.com/nitrojs/nitro/releases/tag/v2.13.4
  • github.com/nitrojs/nitro/releases/tag/v3.0.260429-beta
  • github.com/nitrojs/nitro/security/advisories/GHSA-5w89-w975-hf9q
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-44373

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Affected versions

All versions before 2.13.4

Fixed versions

  • 2.13.4

Solution

Upgrade to version 2.13.4 or above.

Impact 5.3 MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

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Weakness

  • CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Source file

npm/nitropack/CVE-2026-44373.yml

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