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CVE-2026-90711 Sep 15, 06:19 npm CRITICAL POC PATCH GHSA Act Now

Trust-boundary spoofing in the proxy-addr Node.js module (versions 1.1.0 through 2.0.7), the library that backs Express req.ip and req.ips, lets unauthenticated clients forge their apparent source address. When an operator declares a trusted-proxy subnet in IPv4-mapped IPv6 notation with an IPv4-sized prefix (e.g. ::ffff:10.0.0.0/8 rather than the correct /104), proxy-addr silently accepts it but trusts every IPv4 address on the internet, so the direct socket peer becomes trusted at hop 0 and any client can set an arbitrary X-Forwarded-For header. This is a fail-open regression introduced in 1.1.0, fixed in 2.0.8; no public exploit identified at time of analysis, and it is not in CISA KEV.

Authentication Bypass Node.js Red Hat Suse Proxy Addr
NVD GitHub
CVSS 3.1
9.1
EPSS
0.2%
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.1
CRITICAL POC PATCH Act Now

Trust-boundary spoofing in the proxy-addr Node.js module (versions 1.1.0 through 2.0.7), the library that backs Express req.ip and req.ips, lets unauthenticated clients forge their apparent source address. When an operator declares a trusted-proxy subnet in IPv4-mapped IPv6 notation with an IPv4-sized prefix (e.g. ::ffff:10.0.0.0/8 rather than the correct /104), proxy-addr silently accepts it but trusts every IPv4 address on the internet, so the direct socket peer becomes trusted at hop 0 and any client can set an arbitrary X-Forwarded-For header. This is a fail-open regression introduced in 1.1.0, fixed in 2.0.8; no public exploit identified at time of analysis, and it is not in CISA KEV.

Authentication Bypass Node.js Red Hat +2
NVD GitHub

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