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characters in a URL are not stripped when passed into url-parse. This can cause input URLs to be mistakenly be interpreted as a relative URL without a hostname and protocol, while the WHATWG URL parser will trim control characters and treat it as an absolute URL.\n\nIf url-parse is used in security decisions involving the hostname / protocol, and the input URL is used in a client which uses the WHATWG URL parser, the decision may be incorrect.\n\nThis can also lead to a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability if url-parse is used to check for the javascript: protocol in URLs. See following example:\n```js\nconst parse = require('url-parse')\nconst express = require('express')\nconst app = express()\nconst port = 3000\n\nurl = parse(\\\"\\\\bjavascript:alert(1)\\\")\n\nconsole.log(url)\n\napp.get('/', (req, res) =\u003e {\n if (url.protocol !== \\\"javascript:\\\") {res.send(\\\"\u003ca href=\\\\'\\\" + url.href + \\\"\\\\'\u003eCLICK ME!\u003c/a\u003e\\\")}\n })\n\napp.listen(port, () =\u003e {\n console.log(`Example app listening on port ${port}`)\n })\n```","status":"published","published":"2022-02-22T00:00:30Z","modified":"2026-02-03T22:10:37Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.0","score":6.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"medium"}],"cwes":["CWE-639"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:39:22.637668Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2022-0691","description":"Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key in NPM url-parse prior to 1.5.9.","status":"published","published":"2022-02-21T09:15:07.297Z","modified":"2026-06-17T04:21:04.393Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":9.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"critical","assessor":"primary"},{"version":"3.0","score":6.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"secondary"},{"version":"2.0","score":7.5,"vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P","level":"high","assessor":"primary"}],"cwes":["CWE-639"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:07:12.711288Z"}],"osv":[{"id":"CVE-2022-0691","title":"Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key in unshiftio/url-parse","description":"Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key in NPM url-parse prior to 1.5.9.","status":"published","published":"2022-02-21T00:00:00Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:30:40.353371365Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.0","score":6.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"medium"}],"cwes":["CWE-639"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:44:22.824781Z"},{"id":"DEBIAN-CVE-2022-0691","description":"Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key in NPM url-parse prior to 1.5.9.","status":"published","published":"2022-02-21T09:15:07.297Z","modified":"2026-11-03T08:01:46.06927005Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":9.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"critical"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-03T08:24:50.542442Z"},{"id":"GHSA-jf5r-8hm2-f872","title":"url-parse incorrectly parses hostname / protocol due to unstripped leading control characters.","description":"Leading control characters in a URL are not stripped when passed into url-parse. This can cause input URLs to be mistakenly be interpreted as a relative URL without a hostname and protocol, while the WHATWG URL parser will trim control characters and treat it as an absolute URL.\n\nIf url-parse is used in security decisions involving the hostname / protocol, and the input URL is used in a client which uses the WHATWG URL parser, the decision may be incorrect.\n\nThis can also lead to a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability if url-parse is used to check for the javascript: protocol in URLs. See following example:\n```js\nconst parse = require('url-parse')\nconst express = require('express')\nconst app = express()\nconst port = 3000\n\nurl = parse(\\\"\\\\bjavascript:alert(1)\\\")\n\nconsole.log(url)\n\napp.get('/', (req, res) =\u003e {\n if (url.protocol !== \\\"javascript:\\\") {res.send(\\\"\u003ca href=\\\\'\\\" + url.href + \\\"\\\\'\u003eCLICK ME!\u003c/a\u003e\\\")}\n })\n\napp.listen(port, () =\u003e {\n console.log(`Example app listening on port ${port}`)\n })\n```","status":"published","published":"2022-02-22T00:00:30Z","modified":"2026-02-03T22:19:28.188485Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.0","score":6.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"medium"}],"cwes":["CWE-639"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:46:50.336262Z"},{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2022-0691","description":"Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key in NPM url-parse prior to 1.5.9.","status":"published","published":"2022-02-21T09:15:00Z","modified":"2026-02-04T02:59:58.640151Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":9.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"critical"},{"version":"3.0","score":6.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"medium"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T16:53:51.630172Z"},{"id":"CLSA-2026-1776904628","title":"TuxCare security update for url-parse (6 CVEs)","description":"TuxCare rebuilt url-parse to address 6 CVEs. 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If a\nuser or an automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted\ninput file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass input\nvalidation. This issue was only fixed in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and\nUbuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-8124)\n\nYaniv Nizry discovered that url-parse incorrectly handled certain inputs.\nIf a user or an automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted\ninput file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a\ndenial of service, or to perform a server-side request forgery attack or open\nredirect attack. This issue was only fixed in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and\nUbuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-27515)\n\nIt was discovered that url-parse incorrectly handled certain inputs.\nIf a user or an automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted\ninput file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a\ndenial of service, or to perform a server-side request forgery attack or open\nredirect attack. This issue was only fixed in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and\nUbuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-3664)\n\nIt was discovered that url-parse incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a\nuser or an automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted\ninput file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass\nauthorization. This issue was only fixed in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and\nUbuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-0512, CVE-2022-0639, CVE-2022-0691)\n\nRohan Sharma discovered that url-parse incorrectly handled certain inputs.\nIf a user or an automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted\ninput file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass\nauthorization. This issue was only fixed in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and\nUbuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-0686)\n","status":"published","published":"2023-03-27T14:59:16Z","modified":"2026-06-25T13:31:55.291914058Z","updated_at":"2026-11-02T16:58:16.738762Z"}]}}