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Medium 5.9

follow-redirects: Cross-realm sensitiveHeaders arrays are discarded and custom credentials can follow redirects

CVE-2026-116689 First seen on SecPulse

Summary

follow-redirects is a Node.js HTTP and HTTPS client wrapper that automatically follows redirects. From 1.16.0 until 1.16.2, the documented sensitiveHeaders option is checked with value instanceof Array, so an array created in another JavaScript realm is replaced with an empty list even though Array....

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed
follow-redirects follow-redirects — —
Original description The description as published by the source.

follow-redirects is a Node.js HTTP and HTTPS client wrapper that automatically follows redirects. From 1.16.0 until 1.16.2, the documented sensitiveHeaders option is checked with value instanceof Array, so an array created in another JavaScript realm is replaced with an empty list even though Array.isArray recognizes it. When a request then follows an attacker-controlled cross-origin redirect, a custom credential header named in that discarded list can be forwarded to the redirect destination. This issue is fixed in version 1.16.2.

Source: CVE.org (CVE Program・cvelistV5) NVD

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