follow-redirects is a Node.js HTTP and HTTPS client wrapper that automatically follows redirects. From 1.16.0 until 1.16.2, the documented sensitiveHeaders option is checked with value instanceof Array, so an array created in another JavaScript realm is replaced with an empty list even though Array.isArray recognizes it. When a request then follows an attacker-controlled cross-origin redirect, a custom credential header named in that discarded list can be forwarded to the redirect destination. This issue is fixed in version 1.16.2.
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| Description | follow-redirects is a Node.js HTTP and HTTPS client wrapper that automatically follows redirects. From 1.16.0 until 1.16.2, the documented sensitiveHeaders option is checked with value instanceof Array, so an array created in another JavaScript realm is replaced with an empty list even though Array.isArray recognizes it. When a request then follows an attacker-controlled cross-origin redirect, a custom credential header named in that discarded list can be forwarded to the redirect destination. This issue is fixed in version 1.16.2. | |
| Title | follow-redirects: Cross-realm sensitiveHeaders arrays are discarded and custom credentials can follow redirects | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-201 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
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Updated: 2026-10-27T19:38:46.034Z
Reserved: 2026-10-26T20:00:59.830Z
Link: CVE-2026-116689
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-10-27T20:17:14.177
Modified: 2026-10-27T20:17:14.177
Link: CVE-2026-116689
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