CVE-2024-29041: Express.js Open Redirect in malformed URLs
Versions of Express.js prior to 4.19.2 and pre-release alpha and beta versions before 5.0.0-beta.3 are affected by an open redirect vulnerability using malformed URLs.
When a user of Express performs a redirect using a user-provided URL Express performs an encode using encodeurl on the contents before passing it to the location header. This can cause malformed URLs to be evaluated in unexpected ways by common redirect allow list implementations in Express applications, leading to an Open Redirect via bypass of a properly implemented allow list.
The main method impacted is res.location() but this is also called from within res.redirect().
References
- expressjs.com/en/4x/api.html
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-rv95-896h-c2vc
- github.com/expressjs/express
- github.com/expressjs/express/commit/0867302ddbde0e9463d0564fea5861feb708c2dd
- github.com/expressjs/express/commit/0b746953c4bd8e377123527db11f9cd866e39f94
- github.com/expressjs/express/pull/5539
- github.com/expressjs/express/security/advisories/GHSA-rv95-896h-c2vc
- github.com/koajs/koa/issues/1800
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-29041
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