GHSA-7GCC-R8M5-44QM Koa has Host Header Injection via ctx.hostname

Summary Koa's ctx.hostname API performs naive parsing of the HTTP Host header, extracting everything before the first colon without validating the input conforms to RFC 3986 hostname syntax. When a malformed Host header containing a @ symbol e.g., evil.com:[email protected] is received,...

Koa has Host Header Injection via ctx.hostname

Summary Koa's ctx.hostname API performs naive parsing of the HTTP Host header, extracting everything before the first colon without validating the input conforms to RFC 3986 hostname syntax. When a malformed Host header containing a @ symbol e.g., evil.com:[email protected] is received,...

CVE-2026-27959 Koa has Host Header Injection via `ctx.hostname`

Koa is middleware for Node.js using ES2017 async functions. Prior to versions 3.1.2 and 2.16.4, Koa's ctx.hostname API performs naive parsing of the HTTP Host header, extracting everything before the first colon without validating the input conforms to RFC 3986 hostname syntax. When a malformed...