CVE-2026-13697

Description

undici's cache interceptor mishandles malformed Cache-Control private directives. In undici 7.0.0 up to before 7.29.0 and 8.0.0 up to before 8.9.0, a response carrying a degenerate qualified private directive, such as private set to an empty value, can be stored in the default shared cache and later served to a different caller with the same cache key, disclosing private response bodies and headers including Set-Cookie. Separately, a Cache-Control header that combines an unqualified private directive with a qualified one triggers an uncaught TypeError in the cache-control parser, which rejects the request and, depending on the consumer's error handling, can terminate the process. Both issues affect applications using the cache interceptor in shared mode, including the default configuration. The issues are fixed in undici 7.29.0 and 8.9.0.

CVSS Metrics

• v3.1•HIGH•Score: 7.4CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
• v3.1•CRITICAL•Score: 9.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.46%• Percentile: 39%

Techniques & Countermeasures

• CWE-200•Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

  The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information.

• CWE-248•Uncaught Exception

  An exception is thrown from a function, but it is not caught.

• CWE-525•Use of Web Browser Cache Containing Sensitive Information

  The web application does not use an appropriate caching policy that specifies the extent to which each web page and associated form fields should be cached.

Affected Systems

• chainguard•code-server

  < 4.130.0-r5

• chainguard•commercial-gitlab-rails-ee-19.1

  all

• chainguard•commercial-gitlab-rails-ee-19.3

  all

• chainguard•commercial-gitlab-rails-ee-fips-19.1

  all

• chainguard•commercial-gitlab-rails-ee-fips-19.2

  all

• chainguard•commercial-gitlab-rails-ee-fips-19.3

  all

• chainguard•kibana-9.1

  all

• chainguard•kibana-9.1-iamguarded

  all

• chainguard•kibana-9.2

  < 9.2.8-r19

• chainguard•kibana-9.2-iamguarded

  < 9.2.8-r19

• chainguard•kibana-9.3

  all

• chainguard•kibana-9.3-iamguarded

  all

• chainguard•langfuse-3

  < 3.225.0-r3

• chainguard•langfuse-3-compat

  < 3.225.7-r6

• chainguard•langfuse-3-worker

  < 3.225.0-r3

• chainguard•langfuse-4

  < 4.3.1-r3

• chainguard•langfuse-4-worker

  < 4.3.1-r3

• chainguard•langfuse-fips-3

  < 3.224.3-r9

• chainguard•langfuse-fips-3-worker

  < 3.224.3-r9

• chainguard•langfuse-fips-4

  < 4.4.0-r0

• chainguard•langfuse-fips-4-worker

  < 4.4.0-r0

• chainguard•pelias-api

  < 7.8.0-r7

• chainguard•renovate

  < 44.11.4-r0 | < 44.11.3-r0

• chainguard•vitess-24

  < 24.0.2-r10

• chainguard•vitess-24-compat

  < 24.0.3-r7

• wolfi•code-server

  < 4.130.0-r5

• wolfi•langfuse-3

  < 3.225.0-r3

• wolfi•langfuse-3-compat

  < 3.225.7-r6

• wolfi•langfuse-3-worker

  < 3.225.0-r3

• wolfi•renovate

  < 44.11.4-r0 | < 44.11.3-r0

• wolfi•vitess-24

  < 24.0.2-r10

• wolfi•vitess-24-compat

  < 24.0.3-r7

• debian•node-undici

  all | all | < 8.9.0+dfsg+~cs3.2.0-1

• ubuntu•node-undici

  all | all

• nodejs•undici

  ≥ 7.0.0, < 7.29.0 | ≥ 8.0.0, < 8.9.0

• Npm•undici

  ≥ 7.0.0, < 7.29.0 | ≥ 8.0.0, < 8.9.0

• undici•undici

  ≥ 7.0.0, < 7.29.0 | ≥ 8.0.0, < 8.9.0

References (11)

• https://github.com/nodejs/undici/security/advisories/GHSA-4cwx-7wf7-3272
• https://cna.openjsf.org/security-advisories.html
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-13697
• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-13697
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-13697
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-13697
• https://github.com/nodejs/undici/commit/4fe5bc5fefe5ac81a200fc8e1cf84b8bf8464451
• https://github.com/nodejs/undici
• https://github.com/nodejs/undici/releases/tag/v7.29.0
• https://github.com/nodejs/undici/releases/tag/v8.9.0
• https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/13xxx/CVE-2026-13697.json