CVE-2026-92081

fastify vulnerable to Denial of Service via unhandled exception on HTTP/2 trailer responses

MEDIUM
5.9
CVSS Score
Published: September 16, 2026 at 08:52 AM UTC
Updated: September 16, 2026 at 07:55 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorFastify

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Severity
MEDIUM5.9
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

fastify is a fast and low-overhead web framework for Node.js. In versions before 5.12.5, when a route registers a response trailer via reply.trailer() and is served over HTTP/2, fastify unconditionally sets the Transfer-Encoding: chunked header, which is forbidden on HTTP/2, so Node.js throws while serializing the response headers. The exception is not caught and becomes an uncaughtException, so a single unauthenticated HTTP/2 request to any route that uses trailers crashes the server process and drops all in-flight requests, and it can be repeated on every restart. The issue is fixed in fastify 5.12.5, and users should upgrade to 5.12.5 or later. As a workaround, avoid registering response trailers with reply.trailer() on routes served over HTTP/2 until upgrading.

Affected

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

v < 5.12.5
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.12.5 (unaffected)

Remediation

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SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

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CVSS

5.9MEDIUMopenjs
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusAWAITING ANALYSIS
CWE
CWE-248

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