Advisories

uri-js through 4.4.1 Improper UTF-8 Decoding via pctDecChars

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severity
medium
date
Affecting
  • uri-js <= 4.4.1

CWE
  • CWE-176 Improper Handling of Unicode Encoding
CVSS
6.9
CVSS V4 Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Credit
Wayde Shi (PayPal Cyber Security Team)
Description
uri-js through 4.4.1 contains an improper UTF-8 decoding vulnerability in pctDecChars() that decodes invalid and overlong percent-encoded sequences into ASCII metacharacters. Attackers can craft percent-encoded payloads to bypass platform decoder validation and inject path traversal or CRLF sequences that downstream consumers process without filtering.

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