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CVE-2026-55553 npm HIGH POC PATCH GHSA This Week

Credential leakage in the urllib Node.js HTTP client (npm package node-modules/urllib) allows attacker-controlled redirect targets to capture sensitive authentication headers sent by the victim application. Versions through 4.9.0 (v3/v4 branch) and through 2.44.0 (v2 branch) recursively reuse the original caller-supplied options object - including Authorization, Cookie, Proxy-Authorization, x-api-key, x-auth-token, and x-access-token headers - when following redirects to a different origin, violating the WHATWG Fetch specification's cross-origin header-stripping requirement. No public exploit code has been released beyond the proof-of-concept topology described in the GHSA advisory, and no active exploitation has been confirmed by CISA KEV at time of analysis.

Information Disclosure Node.js Urllib
NVD GitHub
CVSS 3.1
7.5
EPSS
0.4%
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC PATCH This Week

Credential leakage in the urllib Node.js HTTP client (npm package node-modules/urllib) allows attacker-controlled redirect targets to capture sensitive authentication headers sent by the victim application. Versions through 4.9.0 (v3/v4 branch) and through 2.44.0 (v2 branch) recursively reuse the original caller-supplied options object - including Authorization, Cookie, Proxy-Authorization, x-api-key, x-auth-token, and x-access-token headers - when following redirects to a different origin, violating the WHATWG Fetch specification's cross-origin header-stripping requirement. No public exploit code has been released beyond the proof-of-concept topology described in the GHSA advisory, and no active exploitation has been confirmed by CISA KEV at time of analysis.

Information Disclosure Node.js Urllib
NVD GitHub

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