CVE-2026-85008

undici vulnerable to caching and replay of unsafe HTTP method responses

MEDIUM
5.3
CVSS Score
Published: September 4, 2026 at 04:42 PM UTC
Updated: September 15, 2026 at 02:30 PM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsUndiciUndici

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Severity
MEDIUM5.3
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.1%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

undici's cache interceptor documents that only safe HTTP methods are cached, but its logic to skip caching is built by subtracting the configured methods from the set of safe methods, so an unsafe method such as POST, PUT, or DELETE is never placed in the skip list and instead falls through to the full cache-read path. The response-storage gate also lacked a method check, so a response to an unsafe request that is heuristically cacheable or carries an explicit Cache-Control directive is stored and later replayed from cache. Because response headers from a remote origin are untrusted, an origin can answer once with a cacheable status and then have the client's own subsequent state-changing requests to that path served from the stale cache entry without ever reaching the origin, an integrity failure that occurs under the interceptor's default configuration. This affects undici versions from 7.0.0 up to 7.29.1 and from 8.0.0 up to 8.10.2. Users should upgrade to undici 7.29.1 or 8.10.2.

Affected

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

7.0.0 ≤ v < 7.29.18.0.0 ≤ v < 8.10.2
Affected range stops below 7.29.1, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 8.10.2, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
7.0.0 ≤ v < 7.29.18.0.0 ≤ v < 8.10.27.0.08.0.0
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.29.1 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 8.10.2 (unaffected)

Remediation

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No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

References (2)

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

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CVSS

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
LOW
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusANALYZED
CWE
CWE-345

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