CVE-2026-6734: undici vulnerable to cross-origin request routing via SOCKS5 proxy pool reuse
When using Socks5ProxyAgent, undici reuses a single connection pool across different origins without verifying that the pool’s origin matches the requested origin. All requests are dispatched through the pool connected to the first origin, regardless of the intended destination.
This causes cross-origin request routing: credentials and request data intended for origin B are sent to origin A, responses from the wrong origin are trusted, and HTTPS requests may be silently downgraded to HTTP.
Impacted users are applications that use Socks5ProxyAgent (directly or via setGlobalDispatcher) and make requests to more than one origin.
This was introduced in undici 7.23.0 via #4385 and affects all versions through 8.1.0.
References
Code Behaviors & Features
Detect and mitigate CVE-2026-6734 with GitLab Dependency Scanning
Secure your software supply chain by verifying that all open source dependencies used in your projects contain no disclosed vulnerabilities. Learn more about Dependency Scanning →