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Authentication/authorization bypass in Clerk's official JavaScript SDKs (@clerk/nextjs, @clerk/nuxt, @clerk/astro, and the underlying @clerk/shared) allows unauthenticated remote attackers to defeat middleware-based route protection: a crafted request evades createRouteMatcher so that clerkMiddleware never invokes auth.protect(), letting the request reach protected downstream handlers such as API routes and server components. Sessions are not compromised and no user is impersonated — only the middleware gating decision is bypassed — so real impact is confined to apps that rely solely on middleware gating without redundant checks in their handlers. CVSS is 9.1 and SSVC rates technical impact as total, but there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and EPSS is low at 0.09% (26th percentile).
Authentication/authorization bypass in Clerk's official JavaScript SDKs (@clerk/nextjs, @clerk/nuxt, @clerk/astro, and the underlying @clerk/shared) allows unauthenticated remote attackers to defeat middleware-based route protection: a crafted request evades createRouteMatcher so that clerkMiddleware never invokes auth.protect(), letting the request reach protected downstream handlers such as API routes and server components. Sessions are not compromised and no user is impersonated — only the middleware gating decision is bypassed — so real impact is confined to apps that rely solely on middleware gating without redundant checks in their handlers. CVSS is 9.1 and SSVC rates technical impact as total, but there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and EPSS is low at 0.09% (26th percentile).