CVE-2024-29041

A flaw was found in the Express.js minimalist web framework for node. Upstream versions of Express.js before 4.19.0 and all pre-release alpha and beta versions of 5.0 are affected by an open redirect vulnerability using malformed URLs. When a user of Express performs a redirect using a user-provided URL, Express performs an encode using encodeurl ↗ on the contents before passing it to the location header. This issue can cause malformed URLs to be evaluated in unexpected ways by common redirect allow list implementations in Express applications, leading to an Open Redirect via bypass of a properly implemented allow list. The main method impacted is res.location(), but this is also called from within res.redirect(). The vulnerability is fixed in upstream version 4.19.2 and 5.0.0-beta.3.

Red Hat Fuse 7 only uses express as part of build time development dependency, it is not part of the final product delivery.

Upstream versions should not be relied upon for ultimate determination of affectedness. Red Hat might backport fixes from upstream versions on a case by case basis.

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Red Hat has investigated whether a possible mitigation exists for this issue, and has not been able to identify a practical example. Please update the affected package as soon as possible.