CVE-2022-39288 HIGH

CVE-2022-39288: Denial of service in Fastify via Content-Type header

Vendor Fastify
Product fastify
Weakness CWE-754
Published October 10, 2022
Last update April 23, 2025

CVSS base score

7.5/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

fastify is a fast and low overhead web framework, for Node.js. Affected versions of fastify are subject to a denial of service via malicious use of the Content-Type header. An attacker can send an invalid Content-Type header that can cause the application to crash. This issue has been addressed in commit `fbb07e8d` and will be included in release version 4.8.1. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade may manually filter out http content with malicious Content-Type headers.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

October 10, 2022 CVE published
April 23, 2025 Record updated