CVE-2026-40255
MediumCVSS 6.1Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk16th percentile - higher than 16% of all known CVEs
Summary
In @adonisjs/http-server versions prior to 7.8.1 and 8.0.0-next.0 through 8.1.3, and @adonisjs/core prior to 7.4.0, response.redirect().back() reads the Referer header and redirects to that URL without host validation. An attacker who can influence the Referer header can redirect users to a malicious external site.
Risk Assessment
Application users may be redirected to malicious sites, facilitating phishing and credential theft.
Recommendation
Update @adonisjs/http-server to version 7.8.1 or 8.2.0 and @adonisjs/core to version 7.4.0 or later.
Other vulnerabilities in AdonisJS HTTP Server
See all- CVE-2026-104150High
AdonisJS HTTP Server is a package for handling HTTP requests in the AdonisJS framework. Prior to 8.2.2 and 9.1.1, the regular expression returned by router.matchers.slug() contains adjacent greedy repetitions with overlapping character classes. When an application applies this matcher to an attacker-controlled route parameter, a long slug ending in a character rejected by the final assertion causes quadratic backtracking and excessive CPU use.
- CVE-2026-107718Medium
AdonisJS HTTP Server is a package for handling HTTP requests in the AdonisJS framework. Prior to 8.2.3 and 9.3.0, AdonisJS HTTP Server inserts route parameter values into URLs without encodeURIComponent in the shared createURL() helper used by Router.makeUrl() and Response.redirect().toRoute(). If an application places attacker-controlled data in a dynamic first path segment and uses the generated route URL as a redirect destination, a value beginning with a slash can produce a scheme-relative external URL. Wildcard parameters are affected by the same missing encoding, while APIs intentionally accepting complete redirect URLs are not affected. An attacker can redirect users from a trusted application to an attacker-controlled site, facilitating phishing or abuse of authentication and OAuth flows. This issue is fixed in versions 8.2.3 and 9.3.0.
- CVE-2026-61526Medium
AdonisJS HTTP Server versions 8.0.0-next.0 through 8.2.0 and 9.0.0 through 9.0.2 interpolate error.message into the default HTML exception response without escaping. This allows execution of attacker-controlled JavaScript when a victim opens a crafted missing-route URL and no custom status page or JSON response handles the error.
Original NVD description (English source)
AdonisJS HTTP Server is a package for handling HTTP requests in the AdonisJS framework. In @adonisjs/http-server versions prior to 7.8.1 and 8.0.0-next.0 through 8.1.3, and @adonisjs/core versions prior to 7.4.0, the response.redirect().back() method reads the Referer header from the incoming HTTP request and redirects to that URL without validating the host.An attacker who can influence the Referer header can cause the application to redirect users to a malicious external site. This affects all AdonisJS applications that use response.redirect().back() or response.redirect('back'). This issue has been fixed in versions 7.8.1 and 8.2.0 and 7.4.0 of @adonisjs/core.
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