CVE-2025-32442 HIGH

CVE-2025-32442: Fastify vulnerable to invalid content-type parsing, which could lead to validation bypass

Vendor Fastify
Product fastify
Weakness CWE-1287
Published April 18, 2025
Last update August 22, 2025

CVSS base score

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

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Fastify is a fast and low overhead web framework, for Node.js. In versions 5.0.0 to 5.3.0 as well as version 4.29.0, applications that specify different validation strategies for different content types have a possibility to bypass validation by providing a _slightly altered_ content type such as with different casing or altered whitespacing before `;`. This was patched in v5.3.1, but the initial patch did not cover all problems. This has been fully patched in v5.3.2 and v4.29.1. A workaround involves not specifying individual content types in the schema.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

April 18, 2025 CVE published
August 22, 2025 Record updated