CVE-2026-33806

fastify vulnerable to Body Schema Validation Bypass via Leading Space in Content-Type Header

HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: April 15, 2026 at 12:14 AM UTC
Updated: July 15, 2026 at 02:20 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorFastify

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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

Impact: Fastify applications using schema.body.content for per-content-type body validation can have validation bypassed entirely by prepending a space to the Content-Type header. The body is still parsed correctly but schema validation is skipped. This is a regression introduced in fastify >= 5.3.2 by the fix for CVE-2025-32442 Patches: Upgrade to fastify v5.8.5 or later. Workarounds: None. Upgrade to the patched version.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

5.3.2 ≤ v < 5.8.55.3.2
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.8.5 (unaffected)

Remediation

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References (5)

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CVSS

7.5HIGHopenjs
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-1287CWE-1289

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